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Principal Software Engineering Manager

Microsoft· Software Engineering
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Redmond, WA$142.8k - $274.8kFull-timePosted 1w ago

About the role

Lead a globally distributed engineering team building a self-service test and validation platform for datacenter critical-environment sensors and telemetry, defining platform strategy, architecture, and driving reliability, scalability, and adoption across the organization.

Responsibilities

  • Lead, grow, and develop a diverse, globally distributed team of software engineers, creating an inclusive culture of accountability, collaboration, customer focus, technical excellence, and continuous learning.
  • Define and communicate the vision, architecture, roadmap, and execution strategy for a self-service platform that enables engineers, operators, and domain experts to author reusable automated tests that validate sensor and telemetry health.
  • Partner across engineering, operations, product management, data science, and domain teams to translate operational risks and telemetry-quality requirements into scalable platform capabilities and drive adoption across the organization.
  • Establish a clear platform ownership and extensibility model that enables users to safely create, validate, deploy, and maintain tests while the platform team owns the frameworks, execution infrastructure, reliability, security, governance, and support model.
  • Drive architectural and engineering decisions for highly available, scalable services that process large volumes of telemetry with appropriate latency, resiliency, observability, security, privacy, and cost efficiency.
  • Define and report against measurable service and platform outcomes using SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, OKRs, and operational metrics to evaluate reliability, adoption, test effectiveness, alert quality, engineering velocity, and customer impact.
  • Establish mechanisms that improve telemetry and detection quality, including visibility into telemetry loss, stale or invalid sensor values, test coverage, false-positive and false-negative rates, detection latency, remediation time, and platform availability.
  • Drive engineering fundamentals and live-site excellence, including design and code reviews, automated testing, CI/CD, secure development, observability, operational readiness, incident response, and durable improvements from incidents and near misses.
  • Lead complex cross-organizational execution, clarifying priorities, resolving ambiguity, managing dependencies and risk, and influencing senior leaders and partner teams through sound technical judgment, data-driven recommendations, and clear communication.
  • Build organizational capability and a strong talent pipeline through thoughtful hiring, coaching, career development, succession planning, and meaningful growth opportunities for engineers and future leaders.

Qualifications

  • 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.

Skills

Required:Platform strategy and architecture
Nice to have:Leadership and people managementTest and validation platform developmentTelemetry and data qualityCloud services design and operations

Benefits

  • See compensation information section for base pay ranges and location-specific adjustments.
  • Benefits and other compensation information available at the provided Microsoft careers link.
Last updated Oct 16, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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