Microsoft · 18 hours ago
Principal Security Engineer Manager
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$140K/yr - $275K/yr
7+ years expMicrosoft is looking for a learn-it-all engineering manager for their Offensive Research & Security Engineering (MORSE) team to help secure Microsoft products. The role involves leading a team of security researchers to ensure the security of Microsoft's operating systems and cloud platforms, while fostering team growth and coordinating with other technical leaders.
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Responsibilities
Champion team health by building a positive culture, advocating for your team, and ensuring alignment with organizational goals
Support career growth by understanding team members’ goals, offering feedback, resolving conflicts, and charting long-term paths for success
Act as a conduit for feedback and help shape processes and improvements that make the organization more effective
Collaborate on engineering projects to drive scalable platform security and land secure outcomes for strategic business bets
Innovate and stay current on emerging threats, attacker techniques, and ecosystem mitigations to devise new security protections
Collaborate with product teams to influence decisions, articulate the business value of security, and strengthen cross-org partnerships
Qualification
Required
7+ years experience in identifying security vulnerabilities, software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, modeling, cyber security, and anomaly detection
1+ year(s) people management
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to, the following specialized security screenings: Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter
Preferred
Master's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science or related field OR 8+ years experience in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, modeling, cyber security, and anomaly detection
2+ years people management
Public track record of relevant security research, especially around vulnerability discovery
Experience exploiting bugs and bypassing security mitigations in operating systems
Familiarity with Microsoft Windows architecture
Company
Microsoft
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