Senior Software Engineering Manager

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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.

Do you want to have fun writing cloud services to protect Microsoft and its customers from malware and phishing attacks? Do you enjoy creating new services with thoughtfully designed, scalable, and robust APIs to protect customers? Sonar team develops several highly scalable, delightfully parallel, highly distributed cloud services with global presence in multiple geos and clouds (public, Gov and Air gapped clouds), and is responsible for the static and dynamic analysis of content (e.g. documents, emails, executables, URLs) to find potentially malicious intent. Our detonation platform has strict SLAs for latency & accuracy and serves as the detonation platform of choice for Office 365, Windows Defender ATP and MCAS; LinkedIn; Azure Sentinel; Office Forms. Our service provides malware as well as phishing protection based on combination of dynamic analysis as well as ML models. We also integrate our threat intelligence and ML based detections as well as enriching the investigation experience into Azure Sentinel, MDTI and Security CoPilot We are a diverse team, very welcoming, highly collaborative and a place where you can bring your authentic self. From lively and passionate hallway conversations about design to game days we know how to have fun! As a fast-growing business, we have exciting opportunities for you to innovate, influence, transform, inspire, and grow within our organization and we encourage you to apply to learn more! This Senior Software Engineering Manager role represents an opportunity to operate on a massive scale and provide sandbox analysis to various businesses in Microsoft like Office 365, Windows Defender ATP, while also building and supporting new businesses and business growth across the company. You will have the opportunity to influence the roadmap of new and existing features in sandbox analysis platforms. We are looking for a Senior Software Engineering Manager who can bring the best out of a very talented group of passionate people. This role requires the leader to be comfortable operating in a fast-paced environment, making decisions, leading from the front, and building strong relationships with a wide range of stakeholders.

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.

• Bachelor's or Masters Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline 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
• 5+ years of software design and development experience
• Experience in managing highly complex, large scale software engineering projects
• Demonstrated experience in collaborating with geographically distributed partner teams
• Professional experience building, shipping and maintaining cloud services on Azure, AWS, Google Cloud or similar

Other Requirements

• Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role.
• Design, development and deployment of highly maintainable backend distributed systems/services and APIs
• 2+ years people management experience.

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.

• Be the leader of a highly performing, talented group of engineers and foster a diverse, inclusive, and result driven team culture.
• Model, coach, and care for employees and peers, helping everyone to bring their best self to work and enable their career growth.
• Develop and execute the strategy and plan for continued improvement in how we deliver ongoing protections and innovations into Detonation platform.
• Collaborate with leaders from product engineering, security services, and other business units to ensure a shared sense of success.
• Adhere to and drive modern software engineering practices through design and code reviews
• Be Responsible for engineering deliverables impacting Detonation analysis platform