Principal Software Engineering Manager

This role is based in Redmond, Washington.

Compensation:

USD $139,900 - $274,800 per year

Responsibilities:

• Lead a team focused on improving efficiency and fundamentals for M365 Copilot backend services, emphasizing scalability, reliability, and efficiency.
• Collaborate with engineering and research teams across M365, Azure and MAI to co-design and ship performance optimizations.
• Provide strategic direction and apply deep technical knowledge to drive measurable business impact.
• Guide technical design, dependency management, and documentation across services and platforms.
• Drive code optimization, refactoring, and reuse to improve system performance and maintainability.
• Act as Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and lead on-call operations, ensuring system health and rapid incident response.
• Own product scalability and performance, applying engineering best practices.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience.
• 4+ years people management experience.
• 2+ years experience building distributed, near real-time, high-load systems.
• Familiarity with modern software design patterns.