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 Data Plane Team owns the foundation of the Microsoft Sentinel Data Lake, delivering secure, reliable, and performant data services at petabyte scale. As the Principal Software Engineering Squad Leader of this team, you will lead a group of engineers solving complex, large-scale distributed systems challenges. You’ll drive the vision, strategy, and execution for the platform, enabling mission-critical security workloads across the globe. We are looking for a leader who thrives in high-scale environments, empowers teams to innovate, and is passionate about building resilient platforms that operate at massive scale. In the era of AI driven transformation, the SP&AI Organization has moved to a squad operating model to dramatically increase the velocity at which ideas become customer impact. The squad operating model is a structure where small, empowered, cross functional teams are each led by a single, accountable ‘squad leader’ who owns a specific customer outcome end to end, from vision and prioritization to execution, measurement, and continuous improvement. Success in this environment depends on fast, localized decision making, founder like accountability, and a culture of continuous learning. Squad leaders benefit from focused accountability, streamlined decision making, and strong organizational support that enables them to move faster and deliver measurable customer outcomes.

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.

This Hybrid Position is located at our Microsoft office in Redmond, Washington. Relocation support will be provided, and successful candidates will need to relocate or reside within 50 miles of the field location.

• Lead the team shaping the Sentinel Platform Data Plane’s technical strategy, delivering scalable, reliable, high performance, and secure systems at petabyte scale.
• Drive high scale distributed services for data ingestion, storage, and query workloads that power mission critical security scenarios.
• Partner across product, security, and platform teams to align priorities and deliver customer impacting outcomes, while ensuring operational excellence in reliability, live site health, efficiency, cost, and latency.
• Drive strategic clarity and customer focused decision making, leveraging deep technical expertise and market understanding to identify opportunities, forecast trends, and guide investments aligned to Sentinel Platform goals.
• Build dependable customer, partner, and stakeholder relationships, staying closely engaged to understand needs and ensure we deliver exceptional value that builds long-term trust.
• Grow and empower a high performing team, hiring and developing talent while fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and accountability.
• Enable cross functional execution across Sentinel Platform and Microsoft Security.
• Mentor the team to build dependable internal and external partnerships, design and deploy solutions that address threats, and meet all requirements for incident response and long-term prevention.
• Guide the team in defining new features and solutions that reduce recurrence and strengthen resilience.
• Oversee analytics and data driven insights, integrating key metrics, KPIs, and operational signals to identify trends and resolve customer issues.
• Drive strategies to close measurement gaps, prioritize findings effectively, and ensure timely resolution of high impact problems.
• Evaluate emerging analytical tools and technologies, sharing insights across teams to drive adoption and improve effectiveness.

Software Engineering M5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $139,900 - $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:
https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

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.