Principal Software Engineering Manager

** Overview*
* Security represents one of the most critical priorities for our customers in a world awash in digital threats, regulatory scrutiny, and estate complexity. Microsoft Security aspires to make the world a safer place for all. We want to reshape security and empower every user, customer, and developer with a security cloud that protects them with end-to-end, simplified solutions. The Microsoft Security organization accelerates Microsoft's mission and bold ambitions to ensure that our company and industry is securing digital technology platforms, devices, and clouds in our customers' heterogeneous environments, as well as ensuring the security of our own internal estate.

We are looking for a  Principal Software Engineering Manager to join our Microsoft Security Exposure Management (MSEM) team. In this role you will lead software engineers building the platform that helps organizations see, understand, and reduce security risk before attackers can exploit it. At the heart of Microsoft Security's Securing AI pillar, your team will deliver services that continuously discover assets, map attack paths, quantify exposure, and drive remediation across an increasingly AI-driven threat landscape.

You will combine people leadership with effective technical judgment and disciplined execution. You will create clarity from ambiguous security problems, guide the design and operation of scalable distributed systems, and establish an engineering culture grounded in customer impact, quality, reliability, inclusion, and continuous learning. You will also partner across Microsoft Security and adjacent organizations to help customers adopt AI confidently and securely.

Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

** Responsibilities*
* + Lead, coach, and grow a team of software engineers with clear goals, timely feedback, effective career development, and an inclusive environment.

+ Own the team's execution from problem definition through design, implementation, deployment, and production operation, ensuring commitments translate into measurable customer value.

+ Provide technical direction for scalable, high-throughput, multi-tenant services and data pipelines that support asset discovery, attack-path analysis, exposure insights, and remediation.

+ Establish a high bar for engineering fundamentals, including architecture, code quality, testing, security, resiliency, performance, telemetry, maintainability, and thoughtful error handling.

+ Build a live-site culture by improving observability, operational readiness, incident response, root-cause analysis, and the systematic elimination of recurring reliability issues.

+ Turn loosely defined AI-era security challenges into clear priorities, achievable milestones, and well-scoped increments while balancing urgency, technical debt, and long-term platform health.

+ Partner with product management, design, research, threat intelligence, and engineering teams across MSEM, the Securing AI pillar, and Microsoft to deliver cohesive customer experiences.

+ Embody our Culture  () and Values ()

** Qualifications*
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* Required Qualifications:

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* + Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.

** Other Requirements:*
* Ability to meet Microsoft, customer…