Principal Software Engineering Manager

We are the Office Growth Activation (OGA) team that empowers our product teams with Data, Insights, SDKs, and toolchain to respond to derive insights, steer future investments, and ensure that our customers have the best lived experiences for the Office products. Each area on the team provides opportunities to develop significant technical depth, be a passionate customer advocate, engage across Office and with cross-Microsoft partners, connect with customers, and directly improve the core experiences for our consumer users and commercial administrators alike.  

The OGA team is looking for a Principal Software Engineering Manager to help Microsoft teams immerse in understanding, protecting, and empowering the product teams via data to deliver innovative modern data solutions and services, which enable engineers, leadership, and product teams to be customer obsessed and make data informed decisions to improve our end user experiences by providing actionable insights via critical product fundamentals like usage, reliability and user sentiment while delivering best of breed solutions created on our pillar of customer trust through commitment to privacy.    

We offer a fantastic and fun team environment with commitment to people and inclusion. We celebrate team cultural values of being:    

• Customer-obsessed (and helping everyone else live this)   
• Exceptional partners – designing and co-developing capabilities for and access dozens (to hundreds) of teams   
• Committed to continual learning and growing in building a high-trust, collaborative, accountable, diverse, and deeply inclusive team environment.    

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.
• 3+ years’ experience managing engineering teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• 3+ years’ experience in software development with a focus on building large data platforms that scale for the organization 
•  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 of working on big data pipelines such as Cosmos, Kusto, Azure Data Factory, etc. or similar technologies would be a plus. 

Software Engineering M5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $133,600 - $256,800 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 $173,200 - $282,200 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 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.

As a Principal Software Engineering Manager, you will:

• Provide hands-on technical leadership: architecture, design, code reviews, development, quality assurance and live site support for mission critical services to ensure high availability, scalability, and resiliency. 
• Live Microsoft’s leadership principles, manager excellence, and adopt growth mindset. 

• Foster a healthy and inclusive team environment that upholds Microsoft’s company values of Respect, Accountability, and Integrity. 
• Design, build, and advocate reusable libraries and best practices to be used across services. 
• Drive modern engineering practices such as continuous integration, unit testing, automated deployments with integrated quality gates. Focusing on simplicity and maintainability as core tenets. 
• Embody our Culture and Values