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Senior Software Engineering Manager

Senior Software Engineering Manager

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6 years

1 - 6 Lacs

Hyderābād

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Work Mode

On-site

Job Type

Full Time

Job Description

Senior Software Engineering Manager

Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Date posted

Jun 25, 2025

Job number

1837523

Work site

Microsoft on-site only

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 secure 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.
As a manager in the Continuous Security Validation & Assurance (CSVA) security engineering team, you will have an opportunity to contribute your deep security expertise, technical leadership and problem-solving skills to lead a team of security engineers working on the security of the underlying platform, code and infrastructure of both internal Microsoft enterprise solutions and of Microsoft products used by millions of customers. We build and manage services to establish and manage security posture of cloud-scale services.

Our team is passionate about a range of security areas including vulnerability discovery, safer programming languages, exploit and vulnerability mitigation techniques, security of containers and software sandboxes, analysis/mitigation of findings from penetration testing & red teaming, etc. The work spans security evaluation and end-to-end protection of cutting-edge areas such as GenAI and Quantum crypto all the way to core operating systems security (Windows and Linux), virtualization security, network security, cloud services security, OWASP top 10, and software + hardware supply-chain vulnerabilities and mitigations.

The team is customer-focused with an emphasis on security, great user experience and reliability. You would drive solutions to challenging technical problems involving security for large-scale systems, lead critical design initiatives, be accountable for delivery and take part in strategic and tactical decisions in the context of mission-critical services.
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.

Qualifications

6-8 years of overall industry experience in software development and building world class solutions with at least 3-5 years of that as SWE manager.
A bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent experience
Sound knowledge of common security vulnerabilities/mitigations
Hands-on approach towards designing, coding, debugging and testing production grade cloud services with a high emphasis on security
Experience/understanding of addressing security issues in distributed cloud-based environments and across the dev ops ecosystem
Experience in technical leadership in driving engineering roadmaps, leading v-teams, mentoring and helping others grow
Excellent communication, cross-team collaboration/influence, presentation skills.
Passion to grow and develop other engineers and leads

Preferred Qualifications:

Proficient with a cloud computing environment like Azure (preferred), GCP or AWS
Experience with CICD pipelines/automation, agile/scrum processes
Ability to reason about security design issues and propose practical solutions
Knowledge of Security Development Lifecycle, security standards and frameworks like NIST, OWASP, etc.
Experience in identifying common vulnerability types (OWASP top 10, CWE top 25) in software and services written in C#, JavaScript/HTML, C++, C, etc.
Experience implementing security features/automated mitigations for common security issues
Experience with security tools/techniques such as SAST, DAST, fuzzing, pen-testing, etc.
Exposure to security protocols and infrastructure components such as OAuth, OIDC, PKI, IRM, A/AD (EntraID), etc.
Experience with reporting technologies/frameworks such as PowerBI
Experience with Kusto or other big data stores

Responsibilities

Lead the architecture, design and implementation of security engineering and automation projects in the context of large-scale services, working with a variety of stakeholders.
Lead the security assessment/analysis of enterprise solutions, development platforms, productivity software/services and core security products/features with a goal to identify security design and implementation gaps.
Lead your team while also collaborating with stakeholders in peer teams and organizations to deliver production-grade solutions for security challenges that scale and work across multiple products while meeting standards of service quality, availability, scale and performance.
Influence and align product vision by collaborating with customers, partners, product management and engineering teams.
Have a hands-on approach to technical leadership in setting the engineering direction for the team with sound design and development best practices.
Drive engineering roadmaps, leading teams, mentoring, and helping others grow.
Own career development of team through active coaching.
Lead the team by bringing clarity, creating energy, and driving results.
Create a strong culture of engineering excellence, customer passion, collaboration, diversity, and inclusion.

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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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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