FULL_TIME
10+
Principal Software Engineering Manager
11/28/2025
Lead a team and partner with Windows teams globally to build and deploy cutting-edge technologies. Ensure project excellence and foster a culture of engineering excellence, collaboration, and customer passion.
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
We are looking for a proven Principal Engineering Manager to join our growing team. You will get to lead a team and partner with Windows teams across the globe to build, use and deploy various cutting-edge technologies in this space. Influence and align the product vision by collaborating with customers, partners, product management and engineering teams. Managing a team of high-caliber Software Engineers, ensuring project and development excellence and technical leadership. Deliver high quality results with full ownership and take the product to next level Own career development of team through active coaching. Create a solid team culture of engineering excellence, customer passion, collaboration, diversity and inclusion. And of course, having fun too! Hire and develop the best Bachelor'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 equivalent experience. 5+ years of team leadership and people management. Solid design, coding, debugging, teamwork, partnership and communication skills Experience in leading large dev teams to achieve complex goals on time and on budget. Proven ability to find a shippable solution given conflicting and ambiguous requirements. Excellent Technical skills in Driving Design, Architecture with cross product and services dependencies. Ability to Drive Innovation with customer obsession. C++ design/architecture skills with expertise in leading teams in Windows development is a plus. Experience with cross group design and coordination is an advantage. You must be self-driven, curious to learn, proactive, and result-oriented.
Key Skills
Software EngineeringTeam LeadershipProject ManagementTechnical LeadershipDesignCodingDebuggingCommunicationInnovationC++Windows DevelopmentCollaborationCustomer ObsessionDiversityInclusionCoaching
Categories
TechnologyManagement & LeadershipSoftware
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