# Principal Software Engineering Manager

**Company**: Microsoft
**Location**: Tallinn, EE
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: € 70,600.00 – € 129,200.00 per year
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Ticker**: MSFT
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2283

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## Description

We are building the Intelligent Conversation and Communications Cloud (IC3) , powering Microsoft’s first-party real-time conversation and streaming products, notably Teams, with reliable, high-quality audio/video calling, meetings, and events at hundreds of millions of users.

As a Principal Software Engineering Manager, you will lead a team building mission-critical, low-latency media systems and drive the next generation of AI-powered media experiences.

**Responsibilities**

- Guide stakeholder partnerships to determine user requirements within and across teams; build continuous feedback loops measuring customer value, usage patterns, and actionable metrics.

- Lead architecture and design discussions for products/solutions; own design decisions; ensure system architecture meets security and compliance requirements; set clear plans for testing and quality.

- Guide teams to produce extensible, maintainable code; define quality metrics, coding patterns, and review standards; lead by example in code-writing and review practices.

- Lead identification and management of cross-team and back-end dependencies; enable cross-team communication and resolve conflicts.

- Drive multiple groups’ project, release, and resourcing plans; break long-term vision into milestones; own deployment safety and the impact of builds on users and services.

- Act as an expert DRI on rotational on-call; establish playbooks, standardized processes, postmortems, telemetry, and SLA adherence; lead efforts to reduce incident volume.

- Oversee tooling, CI/CD automation, and compliance (security, privacy, safety, accessibility); keep the team’s skills current; build partnerships across the Microsoft engineering ecosystem.

**Qualifications**

- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND solid technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.

- Extensive industry experience developing enterprise-grade software.

- Some experience managing engineering teams, delivering high-quality software for customers.

- Familiarity with building applications and services in the Cloud.

**Preferred Qualifications**

- Master’s Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND extensive technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.

- Solid people management experience.

- Ability to communicate technical details clearly across organizational boundaries.

- Experience in DevOps to maintain live services and/or application frameworks.

- Cloud and services experience, with Azure cloud experience highly desirable.

**Salary** The typical base pay range for this role across Estonia is € 70,600.00 – € 129,200.00 per year.

## Skills

### Required
- C
- C++
- C#
- Java
- JavaScript
- Python
- Cloud
- Azure

### Nice to have
- DevOps
- Agile
- Azure cloud
- People management

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