Principal Software Engineering Manager Job at Microsoft Corporation (Bangalore)

Job Description

Help shape the future of cloud data governance and privacy. Microsoft runs industry-leading privacy and governance programs that meet global regulations, including GDPR, CCPA, the EU AI Act, and more. We’re seeking an experienced Principal Software Engineering Manager to join Microsoft Security Trust’s 1P Data Privacy and Governance team. You’ll lead a team that builds and scales privacy and governance capabilities for Microsoft first-party (internal) data and services—partnering across engineering, security, legal, compliance, and product groups. You’ll help drive the Microsoft Privacy corporate control program by translating policy and regulatory requirements into reliable engineering solutions and measurable controls. Your work will enable product teams to discover, classify, protect, retain, and delete data appropriately—improving customer trust while meeting our compliance obligations.

Job Responsibility

Build, coach, and retain a high-performing engineering team (hiring, performance, and career growth) and set a culture of quality, inclusion, and operational excellence.
Own end-to-end delivery of privacy and data-governance platform capabilities (e.g., data discovery and inventory, classification/labeling, policy enforcement, retention/deletion, access governance, and audit evidence).
Translate regulatory, policy, and risk requirements into engineering roadmaps, clear problem statements, and measurable success metrics that balance speed with trust, safety, and compliance.
Partner closely with security, legal, compliance, privacy, and product teams to design solutions that are production-ready, scalable, and repeatable—not one-off processes.
Drive execution across multiple systems and teams in a highly matrixed environment, influencing roadmaps and priorities without direct authority.
Establish strong engineering practices for reliability, security, privacy, and incident response
define SLOs, telemetry, and operational mechanisms to keep services healthy.
Use data and customer feedback to evaluate impact, close control gaps, and continuously improve privacy and governance outcomes across Microsoft

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree AND 15+ years of experience in software engineering, including 6+ years leading engineering teams.
Experience building and operating distributed systems or platform services, including on-call/operational ownership.
Experience partnering with security, privacy, and/or compliance stakeholders in regulated or risk-managed environments.
Experience building and shipping privacy, security, or governance platforms (e.g., data inventory/classification, retention/deletion, access governance, DSR/subject-rights workflows, or policy enforcement services).
Demonstrated ability to automate controls and evidence collection for audit readiness, and to partner effectively through assessments and compliance reviews.
Proven experience working across multiple teams and systems to deliver outcomes in complex, highly matrixed organizations.
Ability to lead ambiguous problem spaces, turning strategy and research into concrete, actionable product and engineering investments.
Strong technical judgment and architecture skills across cloud services, data systems, and security fundamentals (identity, access, encryption, logging, and least privilege).
Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to align diverse partners around shared goals, tradeoffs, and success metrics.
Familiarity with privacy engineering concepts and global regulatory drivers (e.g., GDPR, CCPA) and how they map to technical controls and product requirements.
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role.
This position will be required to pass the Microsoft background and Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

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