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Principal Group Engineering Manager

Microsoft
$165,600.00 - $296,400.00 / yr
United States, Washington, Redmond
Jun 15, 2026
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. Some systems you can quietly take offline at 2am for maintenance. This is not one of them. Every time someone clicks a link, opens a file, or loads a website on one of the more than a billion devices Microsoft Defender protects, a question has to be answered in milliseconds: is this safe? Tens of billions of times a day, the cloud services behind that answer say yes, or no, and stand behind it. I'm looking for the leader who will own them. Here's what you'll own. This is the cloud brain of Microsoft Defender's real-time protection: file threat defense, URL and web reputation, network protection, and the threat-intelligence pipelines and verdict services that feed them. It's powered by hundreds of ML models and graph-based intelligence, drawing on first- and third-party signal at planetary scale. It cannot be wrong, and it cannot be slow. Become an integral member of the Microsoft Defender for Endpoint (MDE) Team. Our mission is to safeguard every user with innovative proactive protection, detection, and response technologies, aiming to stay ahead of malicious actors and anticipating the threats of the future. We're looking for a Principal Group Engineering Manager to lead a team of engineers to design and build the next generation 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 Lead a globally distributed engineering organization across North America and Europe, spanning real-time systems, large-scale data platforms, machine learning, and threat intelligence. Drive a critical and complex technical agenda, including: Modernizing the protection stack onto Kubernetes, modern .NET, and ARM-based compute Unifying fragmented threat intelligence into a single platform and API layer leveraged across Microsoft Security Scaling AI-driven detection capabilities Ensuring services remain always-on and continuously improve in efficiency at global scale (supporting over a billion users) Define and set the technical direction for protecting a billion devices in real time, shaping one of the most consequential engineering missions within Microsoft Security. Build, operate, and evolve large-scale, low-latency cloud services with a strong focus on reliability, scalability, and performance. Grow and develop engineers and engineering leaders, setting a high bar for technical excellence, ownership, and impact. Lead from the front on the most challenging engineering problems, fostering a culture of accountability, innovation, and care in building world-class systems. Embody ourCultureandValues Qualifications Required Qualifications: Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience. 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 qualifications: Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 12+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 15+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience. 8+ years of people management experience, including experience leading multiple teams and managing other managers. 8+ years of experience designing, delivering, and operating large-scale distributed systems or cloud services in production. Proven track record operating always-on, low-latency, high-availability cloud services at global scale (high request-per-second, multi-region, including sovereign clouds). Domain background in security - threat protection, threat intelligence, anti-malware, web/URL or network protection, EDR, or detection systems. Experience leading AI/ML-driven systems and large-scale data platforms (e.g., telemetry, model training and serving, graph-based intelligence). #MSFTSecurity Software Engineering M6 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $165,600.00 - $296,400.00 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 $220,800.00 - $331,200.00 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 This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled. 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 with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.