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Software Engineering Manager

Microsoft

Location

Redmond, WA

Type

Full-time

Posted

9/25/2026

Compensation

$165,600 - $331,200 per year

Undergraduate with 5+ Years of Experience
H-1B FY202696.0% approval-64% YoY
👑 Elite sponsor

Job description

The Engineering Manager for the Purview Fundamentals team at Microsoft will lead a talented group of engineers responsible for delivering platform services that support Microsoft Purview. This role emphasizes driving execution from strategy to customer adoption while ensuring security and compliance are integral to the design. The manager will foster an inclusive engineering culture and focus on service reliability and operational excellence. This position is crucial for enhancing customer-focused innovation and maintaining strong governance across Purview workloads.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field and 8+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in languages such as C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
  • Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements.

Responsibilities

  • Own the end-to-end delivery of Microsoft Purview features and services.
  • Lead and grow a team of software engineers by providing coaching and career development.
  • Drive service reliability, availability, and operational excellence through incident management.
  • Partner with product management, security, compliance, and platform teams to define roadmaps.
  • Champion security-first engineering practices and ensure adherence to compliance requirements.
  • Establish engineering processes, quality standards, and metrics aligned with New Production Function.
  • Lead cross-functional collaboration across Microsoft Security, M365, Entra, and platform teams.
  • Drive technical architecture and design reviews balancing scalability, reliability, and performance.
  • Manage operational priorities, technical debt reduction, and long-term platform modernization efforts.
  • Communicate engineering status, risks, dependencies, and strategic recommendations to senior leadership.
  • Sponsor customer-focused innovation by leveraging telemetry and data-driven insights.
  • Ensure teams maintain strong ownership of compliance, governance, and enterprise security requirements.

Benefits

  • Employees at Microsoft are often offered comprehensive, “world-class” benefits—including health and mental-wellness programs, competitive pay with bonuses and stock awards, and retirement/savings options. Time-off and flexibility are common, with generous vacation and holidays, parental and caregiver leave, and flexible work schedules, alongside learning support, employee resource groups, product discounts, and matching-gifts/volunteering programs. Specific benefits can vary by region.

H-1B filing history

Public USCIS petition and DOL LCA counts · latest USCIS FY2026, LCA FY2026

Filing entity: Microsoft Corporation

As of Aug 23, 2026

Initial approvals

503

FY2026

Approval rate

96.0%

FY2026

LCA certified

3,062

FY2026

Entry-level share

5.7%

FY2026

Initial approvals YoY

-64%

Trend

LCA certified YoY

-83%

Trend

Initial approvals by fiscal year

Approval rate by fiscal year

Continuing vs initial approvals

LCA certified positions by quarter

LCA certified positions by fiscal year

Based on public USCIS and DOL filings; not a sponsorship guarantee.

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