Principal Security Assurance Engineering Manager

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.

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. Microsoft's Mission is to "Empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more" and Security is core to that statement.

The Security Team is looking for a Principal Security Assurance Engineering Manager to help us drive objectives to meet our goal of offering the most secure and trusted productivity experiences in the world, managing a team of highly capable Security professionals, and getting into the technical details of Security Reviews, Threat Models, and Security Architecture themselves too. This position requires a strong passion for technology, growth engineering, data-informed decision making, partner engagement, and most of all: customer focus.  The security outcomes achieved will help ensure MS business process will meet the highest bar.  If this sounds like something you would like to do, we’d love to talk to you!

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.

Responsibilities

• Managing a set of Security Architects and Reviewers
• Driving Secure Engineering policies, practices, and tooling across user-facing services at Microsoft, including AI platforms and implementations
• Helping guide Engineering Teams across Microsoft on security best practices
• Collaborating with teams across Microsoft to help define the state of the art for detection, prevention, and elimination of security risks
• Identifying emerging security problems that need additional focus, and contributing to building solutions to solve them, often utilizing AI
• Planning and managing an expanding portfolio of security and privacy programs and track associated metrics
• Creating and presening plans to management for driving security and privacy objectives across M365 services

• Embody our culture and values

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• Master's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Risk Management, Cyber Security, or related field
  • OR 9+ years experience in software development lifecycle, large scale computing, modeling, cyber security, anomaly detection
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 3+ years people management.
• 7+ years experience in software development lifecycle, designing or developing Software and Services, large scale computing, modeling, cyber security, anomaly detection.
• 4+ years of experience working with engineering and leadership teams to define and implement security requirements.

Other Requirements:

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 Qualfications: 

• Master's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Risk Management, Cyber Security, or related field
  • OR 10+ years experience in software development lifecycle, large scale computing, modeling, cyber security, anomaly detection
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 4+ years people management.
• Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) Certification, Security+ Certification, or relevant certification.

Security Assurance M6 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $163,000 - $296,400 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $220,800 - $331,200 per year.    Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay      Microsoft will accept applications for the role until July 2, 2025.  

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.  We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

 

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