Principal Software Engineering Manager

Does pioneering new and innovative ways to reimagine and transform end-user productivity across the breadth and depth of Microsoft’s global workforce sound exciting to you?  Are you passionate about the future of work, driving innovation and showcasing an employee experience blueprint that inspires customers and partners to navigate their digital transformation?  If so, Microsoft Digital (MSD) team is an excellent place for you to grow your career.  

Microsoft Digital (MSD)’s mission is to power, protect, and transform the employee experience at Microsoft around the world.  Come build community, explore your passions, do your best work and be a part of the team within Microsoft Digital (MSD), is the team that innovates, creates, and delivers the vision for Microsoft’s employee experience, human resources, corporate and legal affairs, global real estate products, and runs Microsoft’s internal network and infrastructure, plus builds campus modernization and hybrid solutions. You will leverage the latest technologies and focus on empowering Microsoft employees with the tools and services that define both the physical and digital future of work.  

We are seeking an experienced Principal Software Engineering Manager to lead and scale one of the largest implementations of Azure DevOps in Microsoft. As the leader of this team, you will be responsible for overseeing the design, development, and delivery of scalable DevOps solutions, enabling engineering teams to optimize the end-to-end software development lifecycle (SDLC) through Azure DevOps services. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams and other engineering leaders to enhance developer productivity, accelerate release cycles, and ensure system reliability at scale. You will be working in a team that has a lot of AI/ML & security scope and opportunities providing ample room for learning and growth.  

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 10+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • OR equivalent experience.
• Ability to build and lead a world-class engineering team. Lead, mentor, and grow team of engineers, cultivate a high-quality engineering culture, emphasizing technical excellence and rapid iteration.   
• Provide deep strategical technical expertise and guidance in the design/architecture/planning stage of the project, including guidance during the execution/implementation as necessary.   
• Owning and driving delivery of critical areas and features, work with the team and peers every day on solving highly complex design, coding, troubleshooting and operational challenges.   
• Set a high standard of engineering excellence, guiding both internal and cross-team efforts to produce scalable and maintainable service. 
• Guides team and leads efforts to ensure best practices for security, privacy, and accessibility applied. 
• Collaborate with other disciplines like PM and UX, partner with other teams to manage dependency and effectively manage the project to deliver on time.  
• Help shape our long-term architecture and technology choices across the full client and services stack. 
• Rapid agility with Proof of Concepts especially with AI/ML. 
• Mentoring and growing other engineers to bring in efficiency and better productivity. 
• Experiment with and recommend new technologies that simplify or improve the tech stack. 
• Work to help build an inclusive working environment. 

Preferred Qualifications: 

• 4+ years people management experience.
• Proven expertise in Azure DevOps, including CI/CD pipelines, Git repositories, YAML pipelines, and automation. 
• Prior experience of building ML models and operationalizing them in production.  
• Problem solving - Ability to clearly understand problems, decompose them into smaller problems; and technical articulation skills so that it is easy for the team to collectively solve.   
• Good communication and stakeholder management skills. 
• High capacity to learn and adapt to new technologies and engineering processes quickly.  
• High capacity to understand the complexities of large scale business problems and create clarity for team and stakeholders. Navigating ambiguity and uncertainty and creating clear goals for business and team. 

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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• Own and drive delivery of critical areas and features, Help the team manage projects using agile engineering methodologies and dealing with ambiguity, working closely with Product Managers, Designers, and Stakeholders to define and execute the product roadmap.  
• Provide deep strategical technical expertise and guidance in the design/architecture/planning stage of the project, including guidance during the execution/implementation as necessary.  
• Lead, mentor, and grow team of engineers, cultivate a high-quality engineering culture, emphasizing technical excellence and rapid iteration.  
• Identify professional growth areas for each engineer on the team and proactively provide opportunities for increasing their skill set as engineers. 
• Continuously evaluate engineering processes and practices affecting the team with the goal of eliminating in-efficiencies and increasing the overall team effectiveness, drive these improvements both within the team and partners. 
• Guide comprehensive application of automation within production and deployment across products and solutions.
• Guide others to run code in simulated, or other non-production environments to confirm functionality and error-free runtime across products.
• Define and develop standardized, repeatable, and scalable solutions to guarantee quality. 
• Drive innovation and take measurable risks to improve our products and services.   
• Communicate effectively with stakeholders and present technical vision and solutions to large audiences.  
• Rapid agility with Proof of Concepts especially with AI/ML.