Senior Software Engineer Manager

Microsoft’s Digital Trust & Safety (DigiTS) organization is hiring a Senior Software Engineer Manager to lead a talented group of Software Engineers, Data Scientists and Data Analysts. If you’re passionate about Big Data, Data Warehouses, Cloud native solutions and interested in protecting human rights, this may be the right opportunity for you!

DigiTS is a team of passionate and dedicated individuals striving to safeguard against harmful content and conduct that threatens human rights, human wellness, and Microsoft's reputation and legal obligations. We believe that everyone deserves to have a positive and respectful online experience, and that technology can be a force for good in promoting digital safety and well-being while maintaining Microsoft’s commitment to privacy and freedom of expression.

As Manager of DigiTS’ Data Science & Business Intelligence team, you’ll be responsible for the data pipelines that aggregates telemetry across Microsoft’s broader consumer business, to ensure compliance with regulatory obligations such as Europe’s Digital Services Act (DSA) and UK’s Online Safety Act (OSA) and that our actions align with our policy goals. You’ll work closely with product teams, policy makers, legal experts, and external partners to ensure that our solutions are aligned with Microsoft's values and standards, as well as the needs and expectations of Microsoft’s customers.

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.

Responsibilities

• Guides team to align with broader organization goals and regulatory requirements, in partnership with stakeholders (e.g., project manager, technical leads, legal).
• Manages a team of Software Engineers, Data Scientists, and Data Analysts, to design, build and maintain infrastructure supporting DigiTS services and platforms.
• Guides team to drive multiple group's project plans, release plans, and work items in coordination with appropriate stakeholders.
• Guides others and acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and guides other engineers across products, working on call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions.
• Seeks new knowledge that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale and shares knowledge with other engineers.
  
  

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
• OR equivalent experience.
• 3+ years people management experience, including hiring and managing highly skilled data engineers, providing mentorship, guidance and career development to members of your team.
  

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

• 5+ years experience designing and building data engineering solutions to solve complex, ambiguous problems, providing value across many teams.
• 5+ years experience with SQL, data modeling, ETL, real time pipelines and analytics platforms (Azure Data Warehouse, AWS Redshift, Google BigQuery, etc).
• 3+ years professional experience supporting compliance and/or regulatory reports.
• 5+ years experience with owning large data sets, including anomaly / outlier detection, data quality and validation.
• 5+ years professional experience developing and maintaining large scale, distributed, backend services using cloud native platforms including but not limited to, Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS or Google Cloud.
• Experience owning platforms for both consumer and enterprise customers.
  
  

Software Engineering M4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 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 $158,400 - $258,000 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 August 29, 2025.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.