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Principal Software Engineering Manager

Principal Software Engineering Manager

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0 - 2 years

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bengaluru karnataka

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Skills Required

software engineering security developer technology sentinel cutting development data analytics strategies collaboration integrity coding debugging communication code azure aws kubernetes microservices architecture management learning design addition deployment scaling timing service vision metrics drive stability agile collaborative network regulations

Work Mode

On-site

Job Type

Full Time

Job Description

Principal Software Engineering Manager

Bangalore, Karnataka, India

Date posted

Oct 15, 2025

Job number

1895122

Work site

3 days / week in-office

Travel

0-25 %

Role type

People Manager

Profession

Software Engineering

Discipline

Software Engineering

Employment type

Full-Time

Overview

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.

The team will be responsible for building and maintaining the control plane services of Microsoft Sentinel Graph (MSG). This crucial mission supports Microsoft's Security business, meeting the immense scale demands that few companies in the industry face. By leveraging cutting-edge technologies, we aim to deliver comprehensive protection to a global user base. The MSG Foundations Engineering team leads the development and end-to-end implementation of infrastructure solutions, focusing on customer scenarios to enable high-volume big-data ingestion and interactive analytics for advanced security threat hunting, detection, and prevention. You will take charge of determining and developing architectural strategies and infrastructure solutions, conducting business reviews, and operating our production services. Collaboration will be essential as you work closely with other engineering teams to ensure that our services and systems are highly stable, performant, and meet the expectations of both internal and external customers and users.

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.

Qualifications

Bachelor's, Master's, or Ph.D. in Computer Science Engineering, or an equivalent field.
11-15 years of software development experience.
3+ years of experience in managing and building teams. - Strong problem-solving skills, along with excellent coding and debugging abilities. Good communication and cross-group collaboration skills.
Prior expertise in platform components & services, cloud infrastructure-as-code (e.g. Azure, AWS etc.), aspects is a plus -Prior domain expertise in security or antimalware software is a plus.
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 background and Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
Team is working in some of the very core areas to build the next generation of security platform.

Growth Mindset Ownership Attitude Proactive and dependable

Required Tools:

C#, Kubernetes, Microservices Architecture, Distributed and Scalable System, Secure Programming

Years Experience:

3 years of management, 2 years in cloud solutions like Azure or AWS

#MSFTSecurity #MicrosoftSentinelGraph

Responsibilities

We are looking for fast-learning, highly motivated, creative and analytical Software Engineer Manager. In this position, you will collaborate with other security engineering disciplines to plan, architect, design, implement, and validate security products and features. In addition to strong technical skills, you should have a passion for innovation and software quality. You must be comfortable with the fast-paced security industry by courageously exploring uncharted territories and thinking ahead of highly sophisticated attackers. You will be responsible for conducting investigations and investing in complex areas, designing and delivering features end to end - including system architecture, coding, deployment, scaling, performance, and quality from conception to delivery.

Responsibilities include:

Working closely with peers, partners, and building diverse and high-performing teams.
Designing and implementing scalable, reliable, and maintainable services.
Demonstrating strategic understanding of the timing and rationale for design choices within the scope of work.
Consistently contributing key ideas to the product or service design and vision that meets customer needs.
Applying metrics to drive the quality and stability of code.
Having a sense of pride, commitment, and personal accountability for service quality, completeness, and resultant user experience throughout the product or service lifecycle.
Working closely with a geographically distributed team, including Product Managers and developers, to drive key improvements in backend Engineering Systems.

We are looking for someone who shares our passion for building great software for enterprises. You will work on a forward-looking product as part of an agile, collaborative, and cross-discipline team.

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

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Opportunities to network and connect

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.

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