# Principal Software Engineering Manager

**Company**: Microsoft
**Location**: Hyderabad, India
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Ticker**: MSFT
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2283

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## Description

As a Principal Software Engineer Manager in Windows Ecosystem & Commercial Engagements (WECE), you will hire and direct a talented team of engineers on a mission to build features into Windows on behalf of our customers & partners.

This opportunity will allow you to deliver value directly to hundreds of millions of users. You will be able to demonstrate that your team is embracing the latest AI-assisted engineering while delivering useful features that improve the value of Windows and our competitive position.

**Responsibilities**

- Guides partnership with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., security, privacy, peer teams) to determine 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 cross-group collaboration efforts, engineering release plans, and work items in coordination with appropriate stakeholders.

- Own delivery of OS features that integrate well into our current & future product plans.

- Deliver code changes with high quality that pass peer review, security scrutiny and are regression free.

**Qualifications** **Required Qualifications:**

- 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 Master’s Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 10+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.

- OR equivalent experience.

- 3+ years engineering management experience leading ICs and/or senior ICs.

- Developed and released LLM-based systems to production with production runtime of 6+ months with significant usage.

**Preferred Qualifications:**

- Experience building software in large, complicated codebases among thousands of engineers.

- Hands-on experience using AI-assisted development tools in production engineering environments (e.g., LLM-powered IDE workflows, code generation, automated refactoring/testing) and the ability to operationalize them into consistent team practices.

- Experience leading high impact software engineering teams, working within a shared ownership model with clear contracts.

- Experience working across teams to develop solid designs and influence others to achieve the outcomes needed for our customers & partners. Practical application of automated evaluation harnesses, quality gates, and monitoring to improve code outputs over time.

## Skills

### Required
- C
- C++
- C#
- Java
- JavaScript
- Python
- AI-assisted engineering
- LLM-based systems

### Nice to have
- large codebases
- AI-assisted development tools
- team leadership
- cross-functional collaboration

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