Principal Engineering Manager - Threat Intelligence

Overview

The Cloud & AI 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. Microsoft is one of the largest enterprise service companies in the world.

The Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) Engineering organization collaborates across all of Microsoft Security to deliver world‑class threat intelligence, advanced detection capabilities, and AI‑driven insights directly to our customers, security researchers, and the ecosystem powering Microsoft’s entire security suite. We process massive internet‑scale datasets, enrich them with Microsoft‑curated intelligence, and apply cutting‑edge AI to help defenders outpace real‑world adversaries.

The Analyst Workbench engineering team builds the analyst workflows and underlying engineering platforms that supercharge Microsoft’s security analysts and customers. Our team is to enable the analyst to hunt malicious threat actors at scale.

We are seeking a Principal Software Engineering Manager to lead the engineering team, drive architectural clarity, deliver a great analyst experience and champion engineering excellence.

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

• Build and lead a diverse, high‑performing engineering team
• Provide technical direction, define and drive the technical strategy to deliver enduring value.
• Lead execution to deliver customer value built to a high engineering bar
• Partner with product management, intelligence analysts and engineering teams to ship a cohesive analyst experience.
• Foster a culture rooted in curiosity, experimentation, customer empathy, and learning.
• Model Microsoft leadership principles: create clarity, generate energy, deliver success.
• Partner with recruiting to hire outstanding talent and maintain a diverse, world‑class engineering team.
  
  

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience AND 5+ years leading engineering teams.
• Expertise in at least one general‑purpose programming language (C++, C#, Java, Python, Rust, TypeScript, etc.).
• Deep experience architecting and delivering large‑scale distributed systems, AI‑enabled applications, or cloud services.
• Proven track record of leading engineering teams solving complex technical problems end‑to‑end.
• Strong analytical, problem‑solving, and debugging skills with emphasis on quality, performance, and operational excellence.
• Success working in fast‑moving environments where ambiguity is the norm and clarity must be created.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with modern web stacks (.NET, Node.js, React, REST APIs).
• Background in threat intelligence, cybersecurity, or large‑scale data processing.
• Experience with DevOps, microservices, cloud infrastructure, and enterprise SLAs.
• Experience building or operating ML-based systems, human‑in‑the‑loop workflows, retrieval‑augmented systems, or model‑driven platforms.
  
  

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.