Principal Software Engineering Manager

Microsoft • Redmond, WA

14h

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, with end-to-end ownership of reliability, latency, security, and compliance.

The manager leads engineering leads and engineers, builds inclusive and self-sufficient teams, and partners with engineering, product, and program leaders across Azure, Commerce, Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365, Power BI, Windows, and other product units. The role also advances AI-native engineering by making AI central to how the team builds, ships, and operates services, improving delivery and operational efficiency and sharing effective 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

• 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, and experience developing managers and 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 the linked Microsoft careers page.

What This Job Offers

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