Principal Engineering Manager

Job ID: 200049917Posted: 2026-08-21Location: United States, Washington, RedmondSalary: USD $142,800 - $274,800 per yearEmployment type: Full-TimeWork site: 3 days / week in-officeRole type: People ManagerTravel: Less than 25%Profession: Software EngineeringDiscipline: Software EngineeringCompany: MicrosoftOverviewSecurity 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. Microsoft Entra secures identities for billions of users - and, increasingly, for the AI agents acting on their behalf. Within Identity, the User Authentication team owns the unified platform for Enterprise and Consumer across users, user like agents, digital workers, devices and securing AI. We are hiring a Principal Engineering Manager to set the technical direction for securing the platform as well as securing the customers with velocity and quality. As a Principal Engineering Manager, you will define strategy, build world-class teams, and deliver foundational capabilities that power unphishable modern credentials, protocol modernization, post quantum readiness and the next generation of secure AI and agentic system on a unified platform. Our teams sit at the intersection of identity, security, operating systems, hardware binding, authentication, and cloud services. 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.ResponsibilitiesBuild and grow the team. Hire, develop, and retain a high-caliber engineering team, and turn senior engineers into technical leaders and future managers.Set the technical and product direction and be accountable for delivering secure systems that safely reasons over various invariants and principles.Set the bar for safe agentic engineering.Establish how the team designs, tests, and ships AI that must be correct, explainable, and reversible -hardening posture without breaking users.Build a team culture where reliability, security, and operational excellence are first-class. Represent the work to leadership and customers.Shape the roadmap with partners and executives across Microsoft and bring feedback directly back into the planEmbody our culture and valuesQualificationsRequired Qualifications:Bachelor'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 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:3+ years people management experience.Experience in either identity, security systems or distributed systems at scale#MSFTSecurity, #MSFTSecurity, #UserAuth #SecuringAI #SecuringPlatform #SecuringCustomersSoftware Engineering M5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $142,800 - $274,800 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 $188,000 - $304,200 per year. Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: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.