Principal Software Engineering Manager
 Microsoft | |
$139,900.00 - $274,800.00 / yr
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 United States, Washington, Redmond | |
 Feb 28, 2026 | |
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Overview
Are you a customer obsessed, AI curious engineering leader who thrives in inclusive, globally distributed teams? Do you enjoy tackling complex, high impact problems at cloud scale-and care deeply about how technology shows up for customers in their most critical moments? If so, this role offers the opportunity to make a meaningful impact on the Microsoft Cloud and the customers who depend on it every day.
Every day, customers entrust their businesses and reputations to the Microsoft Cloud. Within Engineering Operations (EngOps), our mission is to protect that trust by keeping the Microsoft Cloud secure, reliable, and ready. We do this by designing, building, and operating the platforms, standards, and systems that ensure quality, governance, reliability, and resilience on a global scale. Our culture is grounded in growth mindset, empowerment, and collaboration-how we learn, lead, and deliver together matters as much as what we build.
About the Team,Within EngOps, the Azure Communications Manager (ACM) team builds and operates a mission critical, dial tone platform that delivers timely, accurate, targeted, and actionable communications to customers during platform initiated events-such as service issues, planned maintenance, security advisories, and billing changes. ACM sits at the center of Microsoft's communications ecosystem, ensuring that customers and internal stakeholders receive clear, trustworthy information when it matters most.The team is evolving ACM into a highly reliable, AI assisted, policy enforced platform that reduces manual toil, improves communication quality, and helps customers quickly understand and act on platform changes. This work directly impacts customer trust, service credibility, and Microsoft's operational excellence at cloud scale.
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.
Responsibilities * Lead the team in defining goals, planning work, and executing against clear priorities-delivering results with a dedicated focus on quality, reliability, and customer impact.
* Provide technical leadership and guidance across system architecture, design, development, deployment, and livesite operations for a largescale, missioncritical service.
* Partner closely with Product Management, Engineering Operations leaders, and Azure product teams to align on strategy, roadmap, and execution across short and
longterm horizons. * Establish and manage priorities in a fastpaced, evolving environment, balancing feature delivery, operational excellence, and technical debt reduction.
* Build, develop, and retain a highperforming engineering team through thoughtful hiring, coaching, feedback, and career development.
* Foster a culture of inclusion, accountability, learning, and continuous improvement within the team.
* Drive effective engineering practices, including modern design patterns, secure and resilient service design, and agile delivery models.
* Enable effective crossgroup collaboration, sound technical decisionmaking, and healthy conflict resolution.
Qualifications Basic Qualifications:
Preferred Qualifications:
Software Engineering M5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $139,900 - $274,800 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $188,000 - $304,200 per year. Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled. Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations. | |