Principal Software Engineering Manager

Microsoft Teams brings teams together by making it easy, productive and fun to communicate and collaborate! Microsoft Teams is the hub where the power and capabilities of M365 come together - Chat, Calling, Meetings, Files, Bots, 3rd Party integrations and more. It is built on top of latest, industry standard technology stack and frameworks.  

This is an opportunity to lead a fast-paced, high-impact foundational project with cutting edge technology. We are looking for a top performing principal engineering manager, who would like to work in a startup-like environment, building technology fast and with high quality. The ideal candidate has successful management experience and strong product design and development skills.  

You will be empowered to make product-wide technical decisions and directly impact the outcomes for this flagship product working in a dynamic and collaborative environment. You will work with great people, solve a lot of technical challenges and will have the opportunities to learn. Most importantly your work will have tangible business impact. 

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.
• 5+ years of leading an engineering team. 

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:

• Solid understanding of design patterns, computer science basics. 
• Proven problem-solving skills and ability to think strategically.  
• Experience delivering innovation and results, leadership and collaboration. 
• Ability to work on cross team/org projects 
• Ability to create an inclusive and fun work environment where every employee engages effectively. 

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 a team of engineers to build features which influence growth of Teams for Life (Desktop\Web). 
• Strong bias for action and innovation. 
• Mentor and grow the engineers in your team. 
• Design, implement and operate end-to-end product experiences. We expect you to lead the technical architecture, design & code reviews, and delivery of projects, interfacing with product management, design and other dependencies. 
• Collaborate with product managers to layout and manage the feature execution and rollout plan. 
• Make technology and design decisions to deliver performant experiences. 
• Collaborate with your engineering peers to reuse code/stack components where applicable and feasible.