Principal Software Engineering Manager - Azure Core

Microsoft is seeking a Principal Software Engineering Manager to shape cloud infrastructure that powers Azure, Windows, Edge, and AI platforms. The role leads engineering teams delivering virtual machine and container platform capabilities, drives technical strategy and execution, resolves complex incidents, and develops people while ensuring secure, scalable, and reliable services.

Responsibilities:

• Oversees partnership with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project manager, technical lead) to determine user requirements within and across teams for multiple solutions or product lines
• Oversees teams and provides technical leadership for identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform
• Optimizes, debugs, refactors, and reuses code to improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI)
• Oversees teams to drive multiple group's project plans, release plans, and work items in coordination with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) across products
• Leads the resolution of complex site incidents and oversees for Designated Responsible Individuals (DRI) and directs the work of other engineers across product lines
• Keeps informed of and communicates new standards to ensure that the product development and scaling to customer requirements and applies best practices for meeting scaling needs and performance expectations and holds accountability for products that do not meet expectations

Requirements:

• • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ 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 meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role
• • Master'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 Bachelor'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 equivalent experience

• • 6+ years people management experience
• • 2+ years experience building Virtualization features, Operating systems features or device drivers and/or firmware preferred