Principal Software Engineering Manager

Microsoft • Redmond, WA

5h • $142,800 - $274,800

About The Position

Microsoft is hiring a Principal Software Engineering Manager for Azure Monitor within Microsoft Fabric and Azure Data. Azure Monitor provides services that help customers monitor, detect, troubleshoot, and mitigate issues, including Log Analytics, Application Insights, Container Insights, Hosted Prometheus, and Azure Managed Grafana. The platform also supports Microsoft Sentinel. The observability services process more than 1.5 exabytes of logs daily and track over 100 billion active metrics.

The role leads a team focused on ingestion gateway services handling telemetry logs and metrics from Microsoft Azure services. It combines technical leadership with people management: setting technical direction, making architecture trade-offs, improving detection and mitigation, reducing operational toil, and converting live-site learning into durable engineering improvements. The manager will develop the team, establish clear ownership, raise engineering quality, improve planning and execution, and build practices that keep critical services trustworthy at Microsoft scale.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field and 6+ years of technical engineering experience coding in languages such as C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python, or equivalent experience.
• Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements, including passing the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire or transfer and every two years thereafter.

Nice To Haves

• Proficiency operating large-scale distributed services or data/telemetry pipelines in production.
• Demonstrated experience leading live-site and reliability practices for highly available cloud services.
• Familiarity with cloud security and compliance programs.
• Experience growing and developing engineering managers and senior or principal engineers.
• Competence partnering across organizational boundaries to deliver shared platform outcomes.
• Working knowledge of observability and monitoring domains, including metrics, logs, and tracing.

Responsibilities

• Set and communicate the multi-year technical direction for a large-scale observability and telemetry platform, aligning the team's roadmap with Azure Data reliability, scale, and cost objectives.
• Lead through other leaders and senior engineers; grow, coach, and retain a diverse team and build the management and technical bench the organization needs.
• Own the operational health of high-volume production services and foster a durable live-site culture centered on reliability, quality, and customer trust.
• Advance the security and compliance posture of the services.
• Drive cross-organization initiatives and difficult trade-offs, influencing partner teams and senior stakeholders to achieve shared outcomes.
• Cultivate an inclusive, engineering-driven environment where people can do their best work, learn continuously, and adopt modern practices, including AI-assisted development.
• Embody Microsoft's culture and values.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Principal