New 
Principal Security Engineering Manager
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Washington, Redmond | |
 Feb 25, 2025 | |
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OverviewSecurity represents 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. Microsoft Azure is at the center of Microsoft's cloud services strategy and the future of Microsoft. Azure brings together virtualization, compute, storage, authentication, authorization, artificial intelligence and machine learning, media and more to enable anyone to bring their business in the cloud. The Azure Development Security Engineering organization focuses on ensuring a that Azure is the most secure platform in the world and delivers a secure experience for millions of users worldwide. We are seeking a diligent, insightful, and creative Principal Security Engineering Manager to build and lead a team to discover, diagnose, analyze, quantify, characterize and help drive solutions for the most challenging security problems in Azure through a data-driven, product-driven lens. In this role, you will advance security by working with other Security Engineers, Program and Product Managers, and Developers, as well as business leaders throughout Microsoft to turn individual findings and vulnerabilities into patterns and insights that can be measured and managed through engineering, automation, and other appropriate mitigations. You will identify the most demanding security problems through original research and data analysis and help design and deliver practical solutions at scale for select products and services. This role is not confined to any particular area of technology; rather, you will work up and down the stack, across platforms, operating systems, languages, and frameworks, using your broad security skills to solve problems in unfamiliar domains. 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. In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.
ResponsibilitiesLeadership: you will demonstrate the Microsoft leadership principles of "Model, Coach, Care," to build a happy and productive team of world-class security engineers, and participate in the broader Microsoft and industry-wide security community to advance the state of the art.Vulnerability discovery and variant hunting: Using the best available methodologies and techniques, you will examine chosen target systems in detail, looking for vulnerabilities and weaknesses, perform variant hunting looking for larger patterns, conduct qualitative and quantitative analysis over those patterns, and drive solutions upstream in a data-driven, shift-left fashionSolution design and delivery: you will help design solutions for security problems, partner with service teams and other security stakeholders to ensure rapid adoption of solutions and mitigation of threats from beginning to end. | |