Senior Software Engineering Manager - CTJ - TS/SCI

Microsoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineering Manager to join their Microsoft Defender engineering team, which focuses on cutting-edge cloud security products. The role involves providing leadership and technical direction to a team of engineers, ensuring operational excellence and continuous improvement in cloud security solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Lead, mentor, coach, and grow a diverse team of talented engineers delivering world-class services in high-pressure situations
• Collaborate closely with engineering and research teams to ensure services and systems are highly stable, performant, and meet customer expectations
• Provide technical leadership for the engineering team responsible for Microsoft Defender for Endpoint in Sovereign Clouds
• Foster a learn-it-all, curious, and data-driven culture within a fast-paced, highly technical, and constantly evolving environment
• Maintain a strong customer focus and deep understanding of cloud design principles to address cyber-threats and attacks
• Ensure operational excellence by supporting live site operations and participating in a 24x7 incident management model
• Drive continuous improvement and innovation in cloud security solutions, leveraging state-of-the-art technologies to protect sensitive government environments

Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience
• Candidates must have an active TS/SCI and be willing and eligible to upgrade to TS/SCI (with polygraph)
• This role will require candidates to maintain the TS/SCI (with polygraph) clearance
• Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required pre-offer and post-hire for this role
• Failure to maintain or obtain the appropriate clearance and/or customer screening requirements may result in employment action up to and including termination
• This position requires successful verification of the stated security clearance to meet federal government customer requirements
• You will be asked to provide clearance verification information prior to an offer of employment
• This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter
• This position requires verification of U.S. citizenship due to citizenship-based legal restrictions
• Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
• 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
• 2+ years people management experience
• Experience Kubernetes, and the Kubernetes satellite technologies
• Proficient in at least one scripting language but knows when to move solutions into managed code
• Experience in Spark, Data Lake or big data platform pipeline development (Ex. Azure Data Factory, Data Explorer/Kusto, Data Bricks, Spark)
• Experience with Azure DevOps and GitHub tooling
• Data mining or data science experiences utilizing Big Data and/or relational database technologies
• Development experience with cloud platforms such as Microsoft Azure