Principal Software Engineering Manager

Microsoft

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Work type: Hybrid
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Salary: $142,800–$274,800 / yr
Posted: 1 day ago
Freshness: Confirmed live today
Closes: Apr 25, 2027

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Microsoft Corporation is a global technology leader producing software, hardware, and cloud services including Windows, Office 365, Azure cloud platform, Xbox gaming, and Surface devices. Industry: Software & Cloud Computing

Microsoft currently has 687 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · Principal Software Engineering Manager

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The Principal Software Engineering Manager joins the Azure Monitor team within the Azure Data organization to lead a team focused on ingestion gateway services. This role involves managing the telemetry systems that process logs and metrics for all MS Azure services. You will set multi-year technical directions, make architectural tradeoffs, and own the operational health of high-volume production services. Key responsibilities include coaching engineers, improving detection and mitigation, and advancing security and compliance postures. Candidates should possess experience in coding with C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python. The role requires expertise in operating large-scale distributed services, data pipelines, and observability domains like metrics, logs, and tracing. You will solve complex problems regarding reliability, scale, and cost for high-availability cloud services.

What does a Software Engineering Manager earn?

Median $214447 from 120 postings across 39 companies.

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Skills

Azure Microsoft Fabric Azure SQL DB Azure Cosmos DB Azure PostgreSQL Azure Data Factory Azure Synapse Analytics Azure Service Bus Azure Event Grid Power BI Azure Monitor Log Analytics Application Insights Container Insights Prometheus Grafana Microsoft Sentinel C C++ C# Java JavaScript Python Observability Telemetry Pipelines

What you'll do

Set and communicate the multi-year technical direction for the large-scale observability and telemetry platform.
Align the team roadmap with Azure Data's reliability, scale, and cost objectives.
Lead, coach, and retain a diverse team of engineers and managers to build a strong technical bench.
Own the operational health of high-volume production services to ensure reliability and customer trust.
Advance the security and compliance posture of all managed services.
Drive cross-organization initiatives and influence senior stakeholders to deliver complex platform outcomes.
Cultivate an engineering-driven environment that adopts modern practices like AI-assisted development.

What we're looking for

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field.
6+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in languages such as C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
Ability to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check.
Proficiency operating large-scale distributed services or data/telemetry pipelines in production (preferred).
Demonstrated experience leading live-site/reliability practices for high-availability cloud services (preferred).
Familiarity with cloud security and compliance programs (preferred).
Experience growing and developing engineering managers and senior/principal engineers (preferred).
Competence partnering across organizational boundaries to deliver shared platform outcomes (preferred).

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