Principal Security Engineering Manager - Windows + Devices

Microsoft is looking for a Principal Security Engineering Manager to lead the Windows Security team in securing Microsoft Windows products and devices. This role involves identifying vulnerabilities, developing mitigations, and working closely with product engineering teams to enhance security measures.

Responsibilities:

• Lead execution of team to identify and mitigate risk in Microsoft products, including design review, code reviews, fuzzing, and mitigations
• Influence across groups to manage threats & risks, systematic mitigation strategy, and drive accountability with product teams
• Leverage current understanding of security to devise new protections and exploit mitigations, through internal and external security community and groups
• Manage & grow high performance team with learn-it-all and frontier culture

Requirements:

• Master's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or related field AND 4+ years experience in security or related field
• OR Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or related field AND 6+ years experience in security or related field
• OR equivalent experience
• 1+ year(s) people management
• 7+ years of experience in a software engineering or security-related engineering
• 3+ years of security experience with native code (C/C++) and binaries, such as identifying vulnerabilities, reverse engineering, or similar, demonstrating ability to lead exploit mitigations and platform-level defense techniques
• Ability to create clarity, energy, and cohesion across the team
• Ability to influence and drive security initiatives across groups
• 2+ years of managing team
• Public track record of relevant security research, especially around vulnerability discovery
• Experience exploiting bugs and bypassing security mitigations in operating systems
• Familiarity with Microsoft Windows architecture