FULL_TIME
10+
Principal Engineering Manager
11/26/2025
Build, develop, grow and lead a team of engineers while driving the vision and strategy for Dev Tooling and Engineering Systems. Foster a culture of innovation and engineering excellence to improve productivity and the developer experience.
Working Hours
40 hours/week
Company Size
10,001+ employees
Language
English
Visa Sponsorship
No
About The Company
Every company has a mission. What's ours? To empower every person and every organization to achieve more. We believe technology can and should be a force for good and that meaningful innovation contributes to a brighter world in the future and today. Our culture doesn’t just encourage curiosity; it embraces it. Each day we make progress together by showing up as our authentic selves. We show up with a learn-it-all mentality. We show up cheering on others, knowing their success doesn't diminish our own. We show up every day open to learning our own biases, changing our behavior, and inviting in differences. Because impact matters.
Microsoft operates in 190 countries and is made up of approximately 228,000 passionate employees worldwide.
About the Role
Build, develop, grow and lead a team of engineers. Lead the vision, strategy, and execution for Dev Tooling and Engineering System with emphasis on driving productivity and efficiency. Drive adoption and impact of common dev tooling and practices to build, test and deploy Engage product with required compliance and security. Partner with other Engineering, Infra, Tooling and Engineering System teams within and beyond our organization to drive strategic decisions and execution excellence, leading to measurable business impact. Provide oversight, accountability, and leadership for technical architecture and decisions for timely delivery of high quality solutions to meeting customer needs. Foster a culture that drives innovation, engineering excellence, guiding and motivating the team to constantly improve engineering productivity and dev experience. Embody our culture and values. Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years of technical engineering experience in Engineering System and Developer Tooling with cloud infrastructure and distributed systems using coding languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python These requirements include but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 12+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 15+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience. 6+ years people management experience with Engineering System and Developer Tooling. 5+ years of experience planning, designing, implementing, and delivering large projects with emphasis on Engineering Productivity and Efficiency. Experience working across disciplines, groups, and teams to drive Engineering Productivity. Experience architecting and delivering distributed cloud services, Azure preferred. Experience building AI tools for AI First/AI Native product teams.
Key Skills
Engineering ManagementDev ToolingEngineering SystemsCloud InfrastructureDistributed SystemsCC++C#JavaJavaScriptPythonPeople ManagementProject PlanningAI ToolsInnovationTechnical ArchitectureCompliance
Categories
TechnologyManagement & LeadershipEngineering
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