Principal Software Engineering Manager

Microsoft • Redmond, WA

1d • $142,800 - $304,200

About The Position

Microsoft Commercial Marketplace is seeking a Principal Software Engineering Manager to lead the Marketplace Payload Processing Platform. The platform orchestrates end-to-end workflows for receiving, validating, processing, certifying, and provisioning publisher-submitted content across public and sovereign clouds.

The role defines the vision, architecture, and roadmap for a scalable, extensible, and secure platform, and leads engineering leads and engineers in delivering it. It has end-to-end ownership of reliability, latency, security, and compliance, while advancing operational excellence across Marketplace engineering.

The manager partners with engineering, product, and program leaders across Azure, Commerce, Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365, Power BI, Windows, and other product units to deliver platform capabilities and integrations. The position also focuses on building strong, inclusive teams and making AI central to how the team builds, ships, and operates services, improving delivery and operational efficiency and sharing successful practices across the organization.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field and 6+ years of technical engineering experience coding in languages including 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

• Hands-on experience moving an engineering team from AI-augmented to AI-native ways of working and delivering measurable gains in productivity or operational cost.
• 4+ years of technical management experience.
• Experience building and operating secure, compliant, large-scale, distributed, low-latency cloud services across multiple clouds, including sovereign or regulated environments.
• Experience owning reliability and latency KPIs/SLOs, with strong live-site, incident management, root-cause analysis, and safe-deployment practices.
• Experience building self-sufficient teams through effective delegation, clear operating frameworks, and structured execution rhythms.
• Experience driving clear, timely decisions in complex cross-team situations, influencing partners across organizational boundaries, and holding them accountable for shared outcomes.
• Effective communication with senior and executive audiences, experience developing managers, and experience building diverse, inclusive, high-performing teams.

Responsibilities

• Define technical strategy and lead the delivery of scalable, extensible platforms.
• Lead, coach, and grow inclusive, self-sufficient engineering teams and develop future leaders.
• Own service reliability, performance, security, and compliance; champion operational excellence.
• Partner across teams to align priorities, manage dependencies and resources, and deliver shared outcomes.
• Advance AI-native engineering and automation to improve delivery, quality, and operational efficiency.
• Communicate strategy, progress, metrics, and risks clearly to senior leaders and stakeholders.

Benefits

• Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation; additional benefits and pay information is available through Microsoft's careers website.

What This Job Offers

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