Senior Engineering Manager Job at Microsoft Corporation (Bangalore)

Senior Engineering Manager

Microsoft Corporation

Location:
India , Bangalore

Category:
IT - Software Development

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Not provided

Salary:

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Job Description:

The Windows Enterprise & Security (ENS) team builds foundational capabilities that keep Windows client and server operating systems secure, reliable, and trusted at global scale. ENS spans core investments including hardware-backed security, cryptography, identity and authentication, enterprise management, and platform resiliency, which are critical to making Windows a dependable choice for enterprises and governments worldwide. As a Engineering Manager in ENS India, you will build, lead, and grow a high-performing engineering team responsible for shipping enterprise and security-critical Windows capabilities. You will partner closely with peer leaders and engineering teams across geographies (including Redmond) to deliver secure-by-design, reliable-by-default solutions, while scaling engineering excellence, talent, and execution velocity. This role carries end-to-end ownership across people, technology, and delivery, with an explicit mandate to leverage AI-forward engineering practices to improve productivity, quality, and developer effectiveness.

Job Responsibility:

Lead multiple engineers delivering Windows enterprise and security features that ship broadly across the Windows ecosystem
Own end-to-end execution: roadmap planning, technical design, delivery, live-site readiness, and sustained quality
Balance feature delivery with security, reliability, and operational excellence, ensuring a consistently high engineering bar
Drive disciplined execution across multiple parallel workstreams, aligning priorities with ENS and Windows leadership
Hire, onboard, and develop engineers across levels, building a strong, inclusive, and growth-oriented engineering culture
Coach engineers and managers on technical depth, ownership, collaboration, and career progression
Foster a culture of accountability, learning, and customer obsession, aligned with Microsoft values
Create clarity through goals, expectations, and feedback loops, especially in a fast-growing IDC environment
Champion AI-assisted and agentic engineering workflows across the team
Establish guardrails and best practices for responsible use of AI tools—ensuring correctness, security, privacy, and compliance
Encourage teams to use AI to: Accelerate root-cause analysis and debugging
Improve test coverage and validation
Reduce toil through automation and repeatable workflows
Partner with other AI-forward initiatives across Windows to scale learnings and patterns within ENS
Partner closely with ENS teams in Redmond and across Windows to deliver shared outcomes and aligned technical direction
Influence architecture, design decisions, and engineering standards across organizational boundaries
Represent the India team effectively in global forums, design reviews, and leadership discussions
Ensure all solutions meet Windows security, privacy, and compliance standards
Drive strong practices around telemetry, diagnostics, live-site monitoring, and incident response
Lead post-incident learning, systemic fixes, and long-term improvements to platform resilience

Requirements:

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field 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
Experience leading software engineering teams delivering large-scale, production systems
Solid technical background in systems, platform, or security-oriented engineering
Proven ability to hire, develop, and retain high-performing engineering talent
Experience driving execution across complex, cross-team dependencies in a global environment
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

Nice to have:

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ 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
Experience shipping operating system or platform-level functionality and supporting customers at scale
Familiarity with Windows architecture, operating system fundamentals, or platform security concepts
Ability to create clarity, energy, and cohesion across organizations and teams

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
March 22, 2026

Employment Type:

Fulltime

Work Type:

On-site work

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