Principal Software Engineering Manager

at  Microsoft

Would you love to work on large-scale projects at one of the most exciting and diverse divisions within Microsoft? Are you looking for big, creative challenges that show immediate results since your customers will be just down the hall? Do you want to be at the core of it all, acting as a force multiplier enabling groups of engineers to do their best work? If so, we have the perfect engineering manager role for you!
The ES365 (Microsoft 365 Engineering Systems) team owns the tools that make up the end-to-end developer experience in Office and Substrate from source control and check-in experiences to build, validation, and deployment automation. We are making big, bold changes – for the better! We’re making it easy to build and ship apps across platforms and endpoints, and we’re moving away from proprietary, internal-only tools onto “One Microsoft” investments, open source, and industry standard tools.
This is an exciting time as we seek to re-invent productivity, leveraging the power of AI universally.
We’re a growing team looking for an experienced Principal Software Engineering Manager. We have opportunities that span a wide range of front-end and back-end technologies including web application development, CLI development, back-end services, machine learning, managed code, native code, cross-platform, databases, distributed systems, cloud services, and more.
The Principal Software Engineering Manager role involves managing a team of software engineers: ensuring project and development excellence, career development and support, and a team culture of customer passion, collaboration, diversity, and inclusion. This role uses the ability to partner across organizations and divisions, and presents an opportunity to help define and deliver the vision and technical strategy for improving our engineering systems. We have a philosophy that great things in software only happen within high-functioning, high-trust, high-fun team environments.
If you are excited about making Microsoft Substrate and Exchange engineers productive and happy by developing tools and services, we want you in ES365. Come be at the center of Microsoft 365 and join the team that is building the future of Engineering Systems at Microsoft!
Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.
In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.

QUALIFICATIONS

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND 6+ 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 people management or significant mentorship and partnership experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years experience building highly available distributed systems at scale.
• 3+ years experience planning, designing, implementing, and delivering large projects spanning multiple engineers as the primary owner.
• Experience working across disciplines, teams, and geographies.
• Proven collaboration and relationship building skills, especially with partners and customers.

Software Engineering M5 - The typical base pay range for this role across Canada is CAD $132,800 - CAD $247,200 per year.
Find additional pay information here:
https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/canada-pay-information.html
Microsoft will accept applications for the role until April 7, 2024.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations

• Work with engineers, product managers, and partner teams to deliver a set of experiences with the right overall design and architecture.
• Help create a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone can bring their full and authentic selves, enabling them and others to do their best work as a result.
• Focus on outcomes, not actions. Impact for our customers is what matters.
• Build, foster, grow, and retain a team of high-performing software engineers with a diverse set of skills and experiences.
• Provide mentorship and coaching to engineers both in, and beyond, your team.
• Own and deliver complete features across the development lifecycle, including design, architecture, implementation, testability, debugging, shipping, and servicing.
• Ensure your team delivers clean, well-thought-out code with an emphasis on quality, performance, simplicity, durability, scalability, and maintainability.
• Embody our culture and values.