Engineering Manager

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.

Some systems you can quietly take offline at 2am for maintenance. This is not one of them. Every time someone clicks a link, opens a file, or loads a website on one of the more than a billion devices Microsoft Defender protects, a question has to be answered in milliseconds: is this safe?

Tens of billions of times a day, the cloud services behind that answer say yes, or no, and stand behind it. I'm looking for the engineering leader who will build and run them. Here's what you'll own. This is the cloud brain of Microsoft Defender's real-time protection: file threat defense, URL and web reputation, network protection, and the threat-intelligence pipelines and verdict services that feed them.

It's powered by hundreds of ML models and graph-based intelligence, drawing on first- and third-party signal at planetary scale. It cannot be wrong, and it cannot be slow. You'll lead a high-performing team of engineers spanning real-time systems, large-scale data platforms, ML, and threat intelligence.

And you'll inherit a genuinely hard, genuinely important agenda: modernizing the protection stack onto Kubernetes, modern .NET, and ARM-based compute; unifying fragmented threat intelligence into a single platform and set of APIs the rest of Microsoft Security can build on; scaling AI-driven detection; and doing all of it while the service stays always-on for a billion people and gets more efficient every quarter.

This is one of the most consequential engineering roles in Microsoft Security. The person in it shapes how a billion devices stay safe, in real time. We are looking for Engineering Manager leader who has built and operated large-scale, low-latency cloud services, who grows the engineers around them, and who runs toward the hardest problems.

Amazing systems are built by people who care, and at this scale, the leader sets the standard. If protecting a billion people in real time sounds like the problem you want, let's talk. 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.

In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day. Responsibilities Own the cloud brain of Microsoft Defender’s real-time protection, including file threat defense, URL and web reputation, network protection, and the threat-intelligence pipelines and verdict services that support them.

Lead a high-performing team of engineers across real-time systems, large-scale data platforms, machine learning, and threat intelligence. Drive the modernization of the protection stack onto Kubernetes, modern .NET, and ARM-based compute. Unify fragmented threat intelligence into a single platform and set of APIs that the broader Microsoft Security ecosystem can build on.

Scale AI-driven detection capabilities powered by hundreds of ML models and graph-based intelligence. Ensure the service remains always-on, highly accurate, and low-latency while operating at planetary scale for over a billion users.Improve system efficiency quarter over quarter while maintaining reliability and performance standards.

Set a high bar for engineering excellence by growing and developing engineers, and leading through complex, high-impact technical challenges. Embody our Culture and Values 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.

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