Principal Engineering Manager

Do you see yourself as a coach, a guide, a collaborator, and an engineer? Do you enjoy building world-class consumer experiences and products in a fast-paced environment? Do you care deeply about fostering a team culture? Are you excited about empowering consumers through cutting edge payment experiences?

We are looking for an Principal Engineering Manager who embraces these roles and is excited by the technical challenges that come with building and scaling payment experiences. Here at Microsoft AI, we’re building the best consumer payment experience and AI agentic workflow for Copilot on PC, mobile and wherever Copilot users go.

We leverage huge amounts of payment information to grow an open ecosystem of creators, merchants, services, and payment providers. We are building the next generation experience and technology platform that enables consumers, businesses, and institutions to unlock the value of digital assets.

At Microsoft AI, each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

As a Principal Engineering Manager you will model technical excellence and embrace Microsoft cultural values of inclusion and caring to help drive the following outcomes:

Coach & Care – Work with each person on your team to help them to do their best work and grow. Define and foster an identity for the team that includes a reputation for customer empathy, quality, reliability, and inclusiveness.

Model – Define the business goals for the team then create and execute on a plan to meet those goals, driving accountability. Build a vision for evolving the underlying technology stack and guide the team through landing it while maintaining the availability of the live site.

Collaborate – Strive to understand the motivations and goals of the teams we’re working with and work towards a better solution together.

Engineer – Care deeply about consumer experience, product availability, resilience and scalability.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, or related technical discipline 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.

• 6+ years of professional software engineering experience building consumer desktop, web and/or mobile applications and working with large-scale distributed systems.
• Experience as an engineering manager, or a technical lead with a passion for coaching and mentoring others.

Preferred Qualifications

• 6+ years of working experience in large scale system architecture, design, development, testing, and release, including but not limited to web applications, microservices in layers, database design, API design, performance tuning, telemetry design and analysis.
• Demonstrated programming skills and knowledge of architectural patterns for large, high-scale applications.
• Proficient analytical skills with systematic and structured approaches to software design.
• Passion for building reliable and well-tested code.
• Experience managing and working on full-stack teams and products.
• Committed collaboration and communication around articulating technical details.

Software Engineering IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $137,600 - $267,000 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $180,400 - $294,000 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until November 18, 2024.  

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.  We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

• Lead and support a team of 6-8 engineers in the US.
• Collaborate closely with an integrated remote team in China: work with a peer Engineering Manager to define joint goals execution plan.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership: architecture, design, code reviews, development, quality assurance and live site.
• Drive modern engineering practices such as continuous integration, unit testing, automated deployments with integrated quality gates.
• Partner with Product Management to meet immediate and longer-term business objectives.
• Collaborate with teams across the company.
• Hire, retain, and grow top talent.
• Foster a healthy and inclusive team environment.
• Be a mentor for the people on your team and help them grow.
• Embody our Culture and Values