Principal Software Engineering Manager

Microsoft 365 applications are pivotal to Microsoft’s mission of empowering every individual and organization on the planet to achieve more. With a user base in the hundreds of millions, no other suite of products has a comparable reach or impact on personal and organizational productivity. The significance of M365 to Microsoft’s business cannot be overstated, as it is a primary driver of consistent revenue and income growth. 

Our Dublin-based Release and Delivery Experience (RDX) team is dedicated to equipping decision-makers with actionable insights, effective controls, and predictable releases to enhance end-user productivity in a seamless and efficient manner. A crucial aspect of our mission is the dependable delivery of high-quality M365 software to all our customers.

We manage the distribution of all Office products across various platforms—Windows, Mac, iOS, and Android—through a single, streamlined pipeline. This pipeline facilitates rapid feedback, exposure control, efficient audience utilization, and a hypothesis-driven engineering approach. It also includes the M365 Copilot client components, which are foundational to the future revenue growth of the company. In alignment with the One Microsoft ethos, we aim to extend the capabilities of this system across the entire company. 

We are a dynamic, collaborative team committed to elevating customer satisfaction. We tackle intriguing challenges, pursue growth and learning, and enjoy the journey.  

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. 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.

Required Qualifications: 

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python 
  • OR equivalent experience. 
• People management experience leading high performing engineering teams. 
• You must be legally authorized to work in Ireland to be eligible for this role. 

Other Requirements:
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:

• Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
  • OR related technical field AND technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript,Python
  • OR Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • OR equivalent experience.
• People management experience.
• Software engineering experience including building large-scale web applications.  
• Experience creating high-quality, customer focused products.  
• Demonstrated success in bringing people together across teams to successfully collaborate on innovative solutions.   
• Demonstrated success in creating an inclusive and fun work environment where every employee engages effectively.   
• Demonstrated success in growing people and teams through modeling, coaching, and demonstrating care. 
• Experience or working knowledge of JavaScript/Node.js/React or another similar web stack.  
• Proficient with high quality Software design, development experience with effective problem solving, and debugging skills  
• Experience in working on big data pipelines such as Cosmos, Kusto, Azure Data Factory, etc. or similar technologies would be a plus.  
• Experience in working with Azure Dev Ops and SQL or similar technologies would be a plus. 

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. 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.

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• Leads, coaches, and builds a diverse, inclusive, high-performing team where all team members can do their best work.  
• Fosters collaboration with key stakeholders, such as project managers and technical leads, to accurately gather user requirements and drive team alignment. 
• Leads the charge in identifying dependencies and orchestrating the development of comprehensive design documents for products, applications, services, or platforms. 
• Champions code excellence, optimizing, debugging, refactoring, and reusing code to boost performance and maintainability, ensuring maximum effectiveness and return on investment (ROI). 
• Strategically guides the team in managing multiple group’s project plans, release plans, and work items, ensuring seamless coordination with relevant stakeholders, including project managers. 
• Serves as a technical beacon, acting as an expert for Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) roles and vigilantly monitoring engineers across product lines, ensuring system/product/service integrity through on-call duties. 
• Leads by example in product development, meticulously scaling to customer requirements, applying industry best practices for scalability and performance, and taking full accountability for any products that fall short of excellence.