Principal Group Engineering Manager
Microsoft
New York, USA
Posted on Oct 27, 2024
Security 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. 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.
The Entra Identity Governance and Access Management team is looking for a Principal Group Engineering Manager to lead the Entra permissions management engineering team, who develop and support our cloud infrastructure entitlement management (CIEM) solution that provides comprehensive visibility into permissions assigned to all identities (users and workloads), actions, and resources across cloud infrastructures. The CIEM solution detects, right-sizes, and monitors unused and excessive permissions and enables Zero Trust security through least privilege access in Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). The leader will need to partner with Microsoft 1P services, to grow adoption and gain inner ring validation for Microsoft’s production estate. The product involves processing 7M+ audit events/day and peta-bytes of data across our 3P customer and 1P Microsoft while increasing reliability, and availability across the different providers. Our team is seeking an experienced and passionate Principal Group Engineering Manager to join us as we create and deliver mission critical services and processes to enable Microsoft’s online presence. You will be responsible for hiring and growing the best engineers in the world while forming some of the best service teams in Microsoft. You have the opportunity to lead creative, compelling, and cutting-edge services that support our worldwide operations. Also, our culture promotes diversity, multiculturalism, and inclusion and is clearly reflected in all of things we do. Diversity is more than a commitment for us - it is the foundation of what we do. Our team has a strong sense of accountability and provides its members with many opportunities for learning and career growth. We have exciting opportunities for you to innovate, influence, transform, inspire and grow within our organization and we encourage you to apply to learn more!
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.
Responsibilities
This is a broad cross-team role with high visibility, collaborating with multiple teams across Microsoft. This person will:
Required Qualifications
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 background and Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
Preferred Qualifications
Microsoft will accept applications for the role until November 4, 2024.
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Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, 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 and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.
The Entra Identity Governance and Access Management team is looking for a Principal Group Engineering Manager to lead the Entra permissions management engineering team, who develop and support our cloud infrastructure entitlement management (CIEM) solution that provides comprehensive visibility into permissions assigned to all identities (users and workloads), actions, and resources across cloud infrastructures. The CIEM solution detects, right-sizes, and monitors unused and excessive permissions and enables Zero Trust security through least privilege access in Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). The leader will need to partner with Microsoft 1P services, to grow adoption and gain inner ring validation for Microsoft’s production estate. The product involves processing 7M+ audit events/day and peta-bytes of data across our 3P customer and 1P Microsoft while increasing reliability, and availability across the different providers. Our team is seeking an experienced and passionate Principal Group Engineering Manager to join us as we create and deliver mission critical services and processes to enable Microsoft’s online presence. You will be responsible for hiring and growing the best engineers in the world while forming some of the best service teams in Microsoft. You have the opportunity to lead creative, compelling, and cutting-edge services that support our worldwide operations. Also, our culture promotes diversity, multiculturalism, and inclusion and is clearly reflected in all of things we do. Diversity is more than a commitment for us - it is the foundation of what we do. Our team has a strong sense of accountability and provides its members with many opportunities for learning and career growth. We have exciting opportunities for you to innovate, influence, transform, inspire and grow within our organization and we encourage you to apply to learn more!
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.
Responsibilities
This is a broad cross-team role with high visibility, collaborating with multiple teams across Microsoft. This person will:
- Own the architecture, design, implementation of services for extremely high scale, throughput, durability, and low latency including service health, operations and service deployment with minimal manual engineer intervention.
- Lead the definition of requirements, KPIs, priorities and planning of engineering deliverables.
- Mentor and grow the energetic, diverse, and driven team with a good mix of senior, mid-level, and junior talent.
- Drive thought leadership for the least privilege access management domain and innovate with simple, scalable, reliable solutions
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
- OR equivalent experience.
- 2+ years of experience Managing People Managers.
- 5+ years of experience working on Distributed Cloud Services
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 background and Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 12+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
- OR Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 10+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
- OR equivalent experience.
- 4+ years managing people managers.
- Enterprise Customer Engagement experience
- Experience working for a fortune 500 company
- Experience working in the Security or Identity space
Microsoft will accept applications for the role until November 4, 2024.
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Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, 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 and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.