Microsoft · 13 hours ago
Principal Software Engineering Manager-Sharepoint AI Team
United States, Washington, Redmond
Full-time
Hybrid
Lead/Staff
$163K/yr - $296K/yr
8+ years expMicrosoft is a leading technology company seeking a Principal Engineering Manager for their OneDrive and SharePoint AI Platform team. The role involves providing technical leadership in integrating AI-powered experiences and collaborating across various teams to enhance customer experiences.
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Responsibilities
Lead vision, strategy, and execution for AI‑powered experiences across OneDrive and SharePoint
Drive integration of LLMs and generative AI into platform capabilities, including SharePoint’s AI mode
Provide strong technical leadership across architecture, service design, and engineering practices
Collaborate across engineering, PM, design, and research to deliver high‑quality, scalable features
Foster an inclusive, collaborative team culture with a focus on growth, customer empathy, and engineering excellence
Communicate clearly across organizational levels and influence teams through strong written and verbal communication
Leverage cloud expertise (Azure, AWS, GCP) and modern service patterns (REST, RPC, JSON, GraphQL)
Establish best practices that improve reliability, scalability, and AI‑driven development workflows
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience
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
5+ years of software engineering people-management experience
7+ years of experience launching and shipping multiple product iterations to customers
1+ years of experience with LLMs, orchestrators, embedding models, and vector databases
Experience building AI/ML or generative-AI–powered systems
Proven ability to mentor and develop high-performing engineering teams
Strong customer empathy and product-thinking mindset
Proven ability to deliver customer-focused products at scale
Excellent communication and cross-team influence
Company
Microsoft
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