Microsoft · 16 hours ago
Principal Engineering Manager
Mountain View, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Lead/Staff, Director/Executive
$163K/yr - $296K/yr
8+ years expMicrosoft is a leading technology company focused on empowering individuals and organizations. The Principal Engineering Manager will lead a team of engineers, overseeing the development and execution of strategies for Dev Tooling and Engineering Systems, while driving innovation and engineering excellence.
Agentic AIApplication Performance ManagementArtificial Intelligence (AI)Business DevelopmentDevOpsInformation ServicesInformation TechnologyManagement Information SystemsNetwork SecuritySoftware
Responsibilities
Build, develop, grow and lead a team of engineers
Lead the vision, strategy, and execution for Dev Tooling and Engineering System with emphasis on driving productivity and efficiency
Drive adoption and impact of common dev tooling and practices to build, test and deploy Engage product with required compliance and security
Partner with other Engineering, Infra, Tooling and Engineering System teams within and beyond our organization to drive strategic decisions and execution excellence, leading to measurable business impact
Provide oversight, accountability, and leadership for technical architecture and decisions for timely delivery of high quality solutions to meeting customer needs
Foster a culture that drives innovation, engineering excellence, guiding and motivating the team to constantly improve engineering productivity and dev experience
Embody our culture and values
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years of technical engineering experience in Engineering System and Developer Tooling with cloud infrastructure and distributed systems using coding languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python + OR equivalent experience
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
Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 12+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python + OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 15+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python + OR equivalent experience
6+ years people management experience with Engineering System and Developer Tooling
5+ years of experience planning, designing, implementing, and delivering large projects with emphasis on Engineering Productivity and Efficiency
Experience working across disciplines, groups, and teams to drive Engineering Productivity
Experience architecting and delivering distributed cloud services, Azure preferred
Experience building AI tools for AI First/AI Native product teams
Company
Microsoft
Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
10001+ employees
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Funding
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Leadership Team
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