Software Engineering Manager
Content + Source + Freshness • 14 Dec 2025 • 95% confidence
Offer value
Offers strong career growth opportunities in a leading tech company with a competitive salary range and emphasizes management experience.
- Salary range: $163,000–$296,400/year
- Management of a diverse and talented engineering team
- Vast impact on security and cloud services
- Requires significant technical and management experience
Pros
- Attractive salary range ($163,000–$296,400/year)
- Opportunity to manage and mentor a diverse team of talented engineers
- Contribute to significant projects impacting a vast user base
Cons
- High competition with stringent experience requirements
- Role may involve high-stress situations due to live site operations
- Requires physical presence for part of the week
Who it's for
Senior / Lead Management • Hybrid (3 days in-office)
Good fit
- Experienced engineering managers
- Individuals looking to drive cloud security innovations
- Professionals excited to work in a dynamic environment
Not recommended for
- Newly graduated candidates without management experience
- Those seeking fully remote positions
- Individuals with minimal experience in cloud technologies
Motivation fit
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Software Engineering Manager
Redmond, Washington, United States
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Overview
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.
Entra ID (formerly known as Azure AD) is at the center of Microsoft’s cloud strategy. We build and operate critical authentication, authorization and directory services that are used by the millions of Azure, Office 365, XBOX and Windows users worldwide. In the mobile-first cloud-first world, sign-in and sign-up is the front door for reliable end user experience to use any of Microsoft cloud services. Entra ID supports millions of tenants and manages billions of identities, reliably processing billions of authentication and programmability requests daily through its robust infrastructure. The Entra ID platform team is dedicated to continuously improving the platform to ensure scalability for both enterprise and consumer scenarios as the service evolves. By joining this team, you will have the chance to work alongside experienced engineers on innovative distributed systems technologies and contribute to the implementation of advanced algorithms designed to solve complex, large-scale performance challenges.
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.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field 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.
5+ years of experience designing, building, and operating scalable, highly available cloud services or distributed systems on platforms such as Azure, AWS, GCP, or comparable cloud environments, with production ownership and CI/CD pipeline integration.
3+ years of experience building systems with emphasis on reliability, durability, and operational efficiency, including experience with live site operations, incident response, and performance optimization.
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:
- 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 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 equivalent experience.
- 6+ years people management experience
- 3+ years of experience managing a team of software engineers Experience leading projects from conception to delivery (Design, Code Review, Delivery, etc.)
Software Engineering M6 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $163,000 - $296,400 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 $220,800 - $331,200 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
Microsoft will accept applications for the role until November 14, 2025.
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Responsibilities
Responsibilities include:
- Demonstrate accountability in developing and maintaining the service.
- Proactively enhance resiliency, reduce latency, and ensure product reliability, while advocating for engineering best practices.
- Leading engineering projects focused on high-scale distributed services, overseeing all phases from initiation to completion.
- Formulate and prioritize comprehensive engineering plans for your team, and foster effective collaboration with partner organizations.
- Establish a positive, inclusive team culture consistent with Microsoft cultural attributes, values, leadership principles and manager expectations.
- Hire, lead, mentor and retain a diverse team of excellent engineers. Deliver success via empowerment and accountability.
