Security 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. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world.

Our team in the security org is building a software as a service (SaaS) to enable organizations of all sizes to discover, manage and govern their data on-premises and multi-cloud. It is a fully managed, globally available, serverless platform for building security, governance, compliance, and privacy applications quickly, cost-effectively, and at unlimited scale. The platform provides a more holistic understanding of the hybrid data estate, which is always kept up to date with automated data discovery and sensitive data classification. In addition to empowering knowledge workers, this understanding, along with insights from sensitivity, business context, and relationships between data assets is also being used by teams working under the Chief Data Officers (CDO), the Chief Information and Security Officers (CIO and CISO) and the Chief Risk and Compliance Officers (CRO and CCO) to govern, protect, and manage data more effectively.

We are looking for a Principal Software Engineering Manager to build the next generation security data platform and partner with several teams in Microsoft Security and Azure organization to make architectural decisions in an ambiguous space. Join the transformative journey, where we are revolutionizing security, governance, and compliance solutions across Microsoft and other cloud environments. As an engineer on our Cloud Ecosystem Security Team, you will develop of core services that form the foundation of the platform. This platform empowers applications focused on security, governance, and compliance, providing unified experience for managing data across multiple clouds. 

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.

This Hybrid Position is located at our Microsoft office in Redmond, Washington. Relocation support will be provided, and successful candidates will need to relocate or reside within 50 miles of the field location.