Principal Software Engineer Manager
Microsoft · Posted Oct 16
Software, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and hardware services
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About the role
The Cloud Delivery team within Microsoft Defender helps services and product capabilities reach cloud environments quickly and reliably, partnering with service engineering and operations teams to improve deployment pipelines, automate readiness checks, and make releases easier to validate, diagnose, and operate. The team focuses on reducing routine manual intervention while preserving the checks and recovery paths that keep releases safe. This Principal Software Engineering Manager role leads engineers across the organization to build software and improve processes for safer, more reliable Azure cloud deployments, owning people development, technical direction, and delivery while contributing hands-on to architecture, code, and production troubleshooting.
What you will do
- Hire, coach, and develop engineers through clear expectations, actionable feedback, performance management, and career growth opportunities.
- Set engineering priorities and deliver results through your team, balancing deployment improvements with reliability, security, and ongoing support.
- Lead architecture and design for Azure deployment automation and infrastructure tooling, addressing service dependencies, integration boundaries, and failure recovery.
- Contribute code, review designs and implementations, and troubleshoot production issues while developing engineers’ technical judgment and ownership.
- Partner with Defender service teams to automate deployment preparation and validation, reduce manual handoffs, and clarify ownership of tooling and service operation.
- Drive engineering efficiency across Defender by identifying recurring deployment and operational work, improving existing workflows, and building reusable automation where it delivers measurable benefit.
- Use deployment telemetry and incident learning to measure improvements in reliability and manual effort and guide testing, observability, and safe rollout practices.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field
- 10+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.
- Experience managing software engineers, including hiring, coaching, performance management, and career development.
- Experience delivering and supporting production software through an engineering team, including prioritization and dependency management.
- Ability to explain technical decisions, risks, and alternatives to engineering partners and leaders and resolve competing requirements.
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft background and Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation is a multinational technology company that develops, licenses, and supports a wide range of software products, services, and hardware devices. Best known for its Windows operating systems, Microsoft 365 productivity suite, and Xbox gaming consoles, the company has expanded heavily into enterprise cloud computing via Azure and advanced artificial intelligence solutions. As one of the world's most valuable public enterprises, it empowers individuals and businesses globally through innovative digital transformation.
- Industry
- Software
- Company size
- 228,000+ employees
- Founded
- April 4, 1975
- Location
- Redmond, Washington, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Leadership
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Chief Financial Officer
Vice Chair and President
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