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Principal Security Engineer Manager

Location
Redmond, WA · On-site
Job type
Full-time
Level
Lead / Staff
Experience
7+ years
Education
Bachelor's degree
Listed
29 days ago

Skills & highlights for this role

  • native code security
  • vulnerability detection
  • security testing automation

About the role

Lead a team of engineers in building highly-reliable, accurate systems that find, explain, and quantify the impact of security vulnerabilities in native code. Build world-class tools to enable security researchers to work more effectively and find new categories of vulnerabilities. Devise new methods to systematically detect vulnerabilities at scale. Build tools to enable developers to perform automated, scalable security testing.

Collaborate with product teams to improve security, and articulate the business value of security investments. Create clarity, energy, and cohesion across the team.

Master's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or related field AND 4+ years experience in security or related field OR Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or related field AND 6+ years experience in security or related field OR equivalent experience 1+ year(s) people management. 7+ years of experience in a software engineering or security-related field.

1+ years managing security-focused engineering teams.

Read the original posting

From Microsoft's careers page, first listed on Rolev.ai on October 11, 2026. Rolev.ai is not the employer.

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