New 
Principal Software Engineering Manager
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Washington, Redmond | |
 Oct 26, 2025 | |
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OverviewIn Windows Experiences, we are accelerating innovation, strengthening brand preference, and driving growth across Microsoft services and platforms. As we deliver on many key priorities, we are committed to delivering available, reliable, resilient, secure, observable, and cost-effective services across our broader organization.We orchestrate deep engagements in areas like incident management and prevention, service operability and efficiency, and customer-obsessed culture. Our culture of growth mindset and empowerment are central to who we are and how we work.As a part of this team, you'll help shape and influence adoption of best practices and standards for Windows services, research and develop solutions complex technical challenges, and have opportunities to make a huge impact on the experiences we continuously deliver to millions of customers around the world.We are looking for an experienced Principal Software Engineering Manager with a solid track record of running services at scale with quality. We are a fast-paced team, and need a seasoned leader with the energy, ability, and drive to hit the ground running and leading. This EM must be a strong people manager who can motivate and develop individuals, teams, and partners to adapt and move quickly within our organization.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.
ResponsibilitiesLead and continuously develop a high-performing engineering team, owning and steering execution of high-quality servicesOwn team health, career development, and performance management, fostering a culture of inclusion, mentorship, growth mindset, and continuous learning.Partner across multiple product groups to apply subject-matter expertise in distributed systems design practices, interactions between cloud technology layers and components, basic dependencies at scale, and the code that defines infrastructures.Lead by example and mentor others to produce extensible and maintainable code used across products.Collaborate with a team of architects to research, define, and prove standards and best practices that can be applied to improve system, platform, and/or product development and operations across the business.Drive continuous improvements in the architecture, code, features, operations and comprehensive use scenarios of products by leveraging end-to-end technical expertise.Provide technical leadership in planning, reviews, and meetings throughout product development and operations cycles. | |