Principal Software Engineering Manager - Agent team - Microsoft Endpoint Platform

Overview

Cyber-attacks are increasing in volume and sophistication, evading traditional defenses, and posing a growing risk to enterprises from outside criminal organizations and malicious insiders in the organization. The Microsoft 365 Defender suite leverages the Microsoft 365 security portfolio - including Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Office, Cloud Apps and Identity, as well as Microsoft Sentinel and XDR - to automatically analyze threat data across domains, building a complete picture of each attack in a single dashboard to monitor, hunt, detect and remediate threats. With this breadth and depth of clarity defenders can now focus on critical threats and hunt for sophisticated breaches, trusting that the powerful automation in Microsoft's security products detects and stops attacks anywhere in the cyber-attack kill chains and returns the organization to a secure state. Join our team of engineers to develop cutting edge detection and remediation systems. Be a part of defining and shaping the next big leap in the product's journey.

Microsoft defender for endpoint EDR client team is developing the client agent (Sense) which responsible of collection evets from the endpoint, processing and sending to the cloud for analysis. The agent is deployed in over 100M machines, which sets MDE a high scale - high quality product.

Looking to take your low-level C++ skills to the next level and make a real security impact at scale Join our Defender for Endpoint team in Israel!

Responsibilities

As a client engineering Manager, you will lead a team of developers, developing Microsoft Defender for Endpoint's agent (Sense), using Cpp on Windows platform.

You will be working on cutting edge technologies to deliver exciting new features that impact and protect millions of users, with cross-team and cross-discipline collaboration (engineering, PM, research and data science).

You will work closely with experienced engineers and be part of an agile and fast-moving development team - and will have a role in mentoring your peers and helping them succeed.You will be expected to apply a critical view of our infrastructure, technologies and development process, proactively pushing to improve the product and our group, levereging AI for productivity and more.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field.

8+ years of hands-on software engineering experience.

Strong coding skills in C or C++ or Rust (or equivalent experience).

Deep understanding and experience with Windows\Linux system internals.

Proven experience designing, implementing, testing, and maintaining large-scale features and systems.

A collaborative and proactive mindset – you’re curious, a strong communicator, and enjoy working with others to solve hard problems.

Preferred

Experience leading engineering teams

Usage of AI agents for engineering productivity

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

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