Microsoft
Principal Software Engineering Manager
$143K–$304K
Redmond, WA · On-site · Principal · Full-time · Posted Oct 27, 2026
- Experience
- 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding; no separate management-years requirement stated.
- Education
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent experience.
About the job
Leads a team building and operating Azure Monitor ingestion gateway services that process Azure telemetry, setting technical direction and improving reliability, security, and operational practices.
What you'll do
- Set multi-year technical direction and align the platform roadmap with reliability, scale, and cost objectives.
- Lead, coach, and develop engineers and other leaders while fostering an inclusive engineering culture.
- Own production service health and drive security, compliance, reliability, and cross-organization initiatives.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field 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.
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements, including passing the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
Nice to have
- Experience operating large-scale distributed services or data/telemetry pipelines in production and leading live-site/reliability practices for high-availability cloud services.
- Familiarity with cloud security and compliance, developing engineering leaders, cross-organizational platform work, or observability/monitoring domains.
Pay
USD $142,800 - $274,800 per year (base salary); USD $188,000 - $304,200 per year (base salary)
Tools
C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Python, Microsoft Fabric, Azure Monitor
AI focus
Encourages adoption of AI-assisted development; the platform supports an increasingly agentic experience. No specific AI development duties are stated.
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