Principal Software Engineering Manager

Microsoft • Redmond, WA

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About The Position

Shape the way the M365 measures and drives the feedback loop for its AI offerings!
On the Evaluation Platform Team, you’ll have a front-row seat to how AI impacts millions of users. You’ll help steer one of Microsoft’s most important efforts forward, taking our evaluation system to the next level for our builders and partners.
Our goal is to accelerate learning by making sure all the user journeys of an eval system (fine tuning a model, launching a new feature or experiment, adding metrics, onboarding a new 1P or 3P partner, understanding user feedback, creating query sets, etc.) are supported by friendly, agile, reliable, scalable and well documented tools. We are looking for Principal Software Engineering Manager to join our team.
In this role you will lead a team of engineers that will be driving new capabilities that:
Enable builders to be more agile, running more evaluations and faster.
Provide a continuous set of tools and evaluation capabilities throughout the development lifecycle.
Automate tasks via tools or agents to help us understand our performance better.
Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.
• 4+ years people management experience.
• Experience building systems to evaluate and drive quality in a product and using data to drive engineering decisions.

Nice To Haves

• Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 12+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.
• A passion for building reliable, scalable infrastructure and making users successful.
• Comfortable at operating in a dynamic environment; takes initiative to bring clarity and momentum.
• Self-motivated and outcomes-focused, with a sense of ownership and accountability.
• Platform engineering mindset: building reusable components, reducing time‑to‑launch, improving debuggability, and delivering well‑documented tooling.
• People management experience

Responsibilities

• Guides partnership with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project manager, technical lead) to determine user requirements within and across teams.
• Guides teams and leads identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.
• Optimizes, debugs, refactors, and reuses code to improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI).
• Guides team to drive multiple group's project plans, release plans, and work items in coordination with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers).
• Guides team and acts as an expert for Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and monitors other engineers across product lines, working on call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions.
• Leads product development and scaling to customer requirements and applies best practices for meeting scaling needs and performance expectations and holds accountability for products that do not meet expectations.

What This Job Offers

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