Principal Software Engineering Manager

Microsoft is on a mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world. You can help us achieve our mission.

Cloud Operations + Innovation (CO+I) is the engine that powers Microsoft’s core cloud platforms and services that millions of people use every day. With more than 95% of Fortune 500 business on Azure, 180 million using Office 365, and millions using other services – all running on Microsoft's cloud infrastructure – CO+I builds and operates the foundation upon which Microsoft’s mission to empower every person and organization comes to life.

The Core Datacenter Services (CDS) organization designs and delivers solutions that support global datacenter operations and improve service availability. CDS is helping CO+I advance a customer-focused, data-driven, live-service culture by transforming telemetry into actionable intelligence.

We are seeking a Principal Software Engineering Manager to lead a globally distributed engineering team building a self-service test and validation platform for datacenter critical-environment sensors and telemetry. The platform will enable engineers, operators, and domain experts to create reusable automated tests that continuously validate telemetry quality, sensor behavior, data completeness, and system health, with integrated monitoring, reporting, and actionable alerting. You will define the platform strategy and architecture, develop a high-performing engineering team, and partner across engineering and operations to deliver a secure, reliable, scalable solution that improves engineering velocity and operational reliability.