Principal Software Engineering Manager

Teams is the fabric of how we communicate and collaborate, bringing together your chats, meetings, apps, files and much more. Whether you use it for work, school, or life, over 300M people rely on Teams every day to stay productive and connected with colleagues, partners customers, friends, and family. Our users expect Teams to have great fundamentals – to be fast, resource efficient and reliable, and the new Teams app is re-architected and optimized from the ground up to deliver on that promise. Our journey is just getting started with the new era of Teams (Introducing the new Microsoft Teams | Microsoft 365 Blog).

We are looking for a Principal Software Engineering Manager to join the Teams Fundamentals organization and lead our work on reliability and resiliency horizontal initiatives across our product. This includes the end to end strategy for how we measure reliability for our different audiences, how we leverage customer feedback, how we create diagnostics and analytics at scale to enable faster detection and debugging, build resilient architectures and engineering systems to assess, maintain and ensure a high level of reliability for everything we build in our app.

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.
• 2+ experience as an engineering manager, or a technical lead with a passion for coaching and mentoring others.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with fundamentals and building quality software with a data driven approach  
• Ability to collaborate, communicate, drive initiatives, navigating ambiguity and building partnerships across teams
• Experience with analyzing and debugging performance and reliability issues on Web, native and hybrid applications
• Technical engineering experience with coding in web technology stacks including but not limited to JavaScript, React, Typescript, GraphQL, Chromium etc.

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:

• Drive the E2E fundamentals strategy and execution for reliability and resiliency across Teams including analysis, initiatives to improve, building diagnostics and debuggability and engineering systems
• Collaborate and partner effectively with Product, Customer success, Engineering teams within and beyond our org, to drive fundamentals excellence with a growth mindset, data driven approach grounded in customer obsession and empathy
• Build, Develop, Grow and Lead a team of high performing engineers with a flexible, inclusive culture where everyone is enabled to be at their best
• Lead technical activities in a hands-on way across initiatives from planning to design, development, analysis and debugging at scale