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Principal Software Engineering Manager - Microsoft Red Team

Microsoft· Software Engineering
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Redmond, WA$142.8k - $274.8kfull-timePosted 1w ago

About the role

Lead and grow the engineering team responsible for the intelligence platform within Microsoft Red Team Engineering. Own the technical strategy and delivery of services used by human operators and autonomous agents to understand environments, identify attack paths, and act on them at scale, collaborating across geographies to advance an AI-driven adversary emulation platform.

Responsibilities

  • Lead, grow, and coach a team of software engineers, building an inclusive, high-trust culture where people do the most outstanding work of their careers.
  • Own the technical strategy, roadmap, and execution for the intelligence pillar within Microsoft Red Team engineering, and expand the team's charter into new offensive capability areas as opportunities emerge.
  • Drive the design and delivery of AI-driven services that leverage LLMs and autonomous agents to find critical attack paths across Microsoft's estate at scale.
  • Deliver intelligence packages and product experiences that help human red team operators quickly understand target environments, plan operations, and select the highest-impact techniques.
  • Contribute engineering leadership to the broader AI-driven adversary emulation platform, partnering with peer engineering teams globally on architecture and shared components.
  • Partner closely with red team operators, security researchers, product management, and engineering leaders globally to align investments with the highest-impact attack paths.
  • Hire, develop, and retain engineers; set clear expectations, give candid feedback, and grow the next generation of technical leaders on the team.
  • Drive engineering excellence across the team – design reviews, code quality, secure development practices, live-site health, and continuous improvement.
  • Ensure Microsoft continues to improve security through authentic red team attacks.

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.

Skills

Required:Software engineering leadershipTechnical strategy & roadmappingAI-driven services development

Benefits

  • See Microsoft careers page for benefits and pay information.
Last updated Oct 16, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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