Principal Software Engineering Manager
Overview
Microsoft brings together passionate innovators to collaborate, imagine what is possible, and build solutions in a cloud- and AI-enabled world.
The Global Skilling Product Team (GSPT) develops innovative products and experiences that help customers, partners, sellers, and future generations skill, upskill, and reskill. Our goal is to reach more than 100 million learners through accessible, high-quality learning experiences across Microsoft Learn and other digital platforms.
As a Principal Software Engineering Manager, you will lead a team of engineers and serve as a technical authority for the design, development, and delivery of sophisticated, scalable learning and skilling solutions. You will drive skilling products such as AI Skills Navigator, using AI to improve how skilling recommendations and personalized learning reach global enterprise learners, and making learning available to Microsoft’s customers and partners across our products and platforms. Working across product, operations, partner, and engineering teams, you will translate business needs, workflow constraints, and success criteria into secure, reliable solutions with measurable outcomes, guiding them from discovery to production adoption with the right combination of Copilot, AI agents, Power Platform, Azure services, and custom software. You will also grow your team’s capabilities, helping engineers learn and adopt new technologies, tools, and practices from across Microsoft and the industry.
If you thrive in collaborative, agile environments and enjoy solving complex real-world problems, we would like to hear from you.
Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more, and we’re dedicated to this mission across every aspect of our company. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their highly qualified contributions each day. Join us and help shape the future of the world.
Responsibilities
The Principal Software Engineering Manager key responsibilities are the following:
- Lead a team of software engineers while providing principal-level technical leadership and remaining accountable for architecture, delivery, quality, and engineering outcomes.
- Guide to the design of architectures that connect workflows, data, and enterprise services, including interfaces, data contracts, dependencies, access boundaries, failure handling, and upstream and downstream impacts.
- Own the full software development lifecycle for skilling platform features, from requirements, architecture, and application and database design through implementation, testing, deployment, and production support.
- Lead efforts to produce extensible, maintainable, secure, and performant code; stay hands-on in design and code revi...
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