New 
Principal Software Engineering Manager
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Washington, Redmond | |
 Jul 13, 2025 | |
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OverviewSecurity 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. We are seeking a driven and experienced Principal Software Engineering Manager to lead the development of core runtime capabilities that power AI agents and orchestrator systems within Microsoft Security Copilot. This is a pivotal role for a technical leader who thrives at the crossroads of AI research, product strategy, and production-scale systems engineering. You'll be responsible for operationalizing cutting-edge research into secure, scalable, and orchestrated agent workflows that transform how organizations secure their digital environments. As a leader on the Security Copilot team, you'll manage a talented engineering team and collaborate closely with AI researchers, product managers, UX designers, and partner engineering teams. Your team's charter will include the evolution of multi-agent orchestration frameworks, agent execution environments, tooling integration, and runtime governance. This role will require strategic thinking, system-level design skills, and an ability to deliver complex features in high-stakes security contexts. 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.
ResponsibilitiesLead the runtime engineering charter for Security Copilot, building and evolving the infrastructure for AI agent orchestration and execution across security scenarios. Serve as the bridge between research prototypes and production-assessing feasibility, defining technical direction, and ensuring reliable agent deployment pipelines. Build and scale a high-impact engineering team, fostering a culture of technical excellence, inclusion, and rapid iteration. Collaborate deeply with AI researchers, applied scientists, and product teams to define agent behaviors, orchestration flows, and runtime policies. Implement secure-by-design engineering practices for agent lifecycle management, observability, and system resilience. Drive the integration of toolchains, memory, context handling, and plugin frameworks into a cohesive runtime environment. Establish runtime metrics and diagnostics to evaluate agent task success, execution reliability, and customer impact. Communicate clearly across disciplines, balancing technical detail with business and product priorities | |