# Principal Security Engineer Manager

**Company**: Microsoft
**Location**: Redmond
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: USD $142,800 – $274,800 per year
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Ticker**: MSFT
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2283

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## Description

The Windows Attack Research & Protection (WARP) team at Microsoft is seeking a Principal Security Engineer Manager to lead a team of security engineers in building cutting-edge automation for vulnerability discovery and remediation.

As a Principal Security Engineer Manager, you will oversee the development of highly reliable systems that identify and quantify security vulnerabilities in native code. You will also build world-class tools to enable security researchers to work more effectively and devise new methods to systematically detect vulnerabilities at scale.

Key responsibilities include:

- Leading a team of engineers in building highly reliable systems that find, explain, and quantify the impact of security vulnerabilities in native code.

- Building world-class tools to enable security researchers to work more effectively and find new categories of vulnerabilities.

- Devising new methods to systematically detect vulnerabilities at scale.

- Building tools to enable developers to perform automated, scalable security testing.

- Collaborating with product teams to improve security and articulating the business value of security investments.

- Creating clarity, energy, and cohesion across the team.

The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience with native code (C/C++), building agentic systems and tools, a clear understanding of OS security fundamentals, and solid computer science skills.

The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $142,800 – $274,800 per year.

## Skills

### Required
- native code
- C/C++
- OS security fundamentals
- computer science

### Nice to have
- 7+ years of experience in a software engineering or security-related field
- 1+ years managing security-focused engineering teams

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