Microsoft—Principal Software Engineering Manager

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Description: Overview As a Principal Engineering Manager on the Azure Native Integrations team, you will lead a team responsible for foundational platform and services that make it effortless for customers to discover, provision, and operate best-in-class partner (ISV) offerings natively within Azure/ Foundry. These Integrations focuses on delivering a first-class, unified experience—spanning identity, billing, provisioning, and management—so partner services feel like a natural extension of the Microsoft platform across the portal, SDKs, and APIs, operating at significant scale and complexity. We work with large Enterprise technology provider ISVS across multiple categories: Observability, Data and Storage, Networks, Security, AI. Our work spans partner integration platforms, provisioning and control-plane services, and the paved paths that enable teams to move quickly while maintaining reliability and security. We provide tooling, services, and operational support that allow partners and customers to onboard and run integrated services safely and efficiently. In this role you will set up the technical vision and own the end-to-end strategy for two critical charters: Azure Native Partner integration experience, and an AI-based, agentic solution that automates and orchestrates onboarding and maintainability. The team plays a critical role in maintaining trust in Azure's partner ecosystem while balancing speed, scale, security, and stability. Azure's continued growth brings both opportunity and complexity. As a Principal Engineering Manager in this role, you will lead a team operating mission-critical systems in a fast-moving environment. You'll work closely with engineers and partners across the company to reduce onboarding friction, improve service reliability, respond to incidents, and evolve our AI-driven platforms to meet the needs of a rapidly scaling partner ecosystem. This role blends people-leadership, technical depth, and operational ownership, with a direct impact on the daily experience of Azure customers and partners worldwide. Responsibilities Your typical week would include: - Collaborating with engineering teams, product management, partners, and engineering leadership to align on and understand the problems we want to solve across our ISV partners and build strategy, lead adoption for agentic solution. - Unblocking obstacles for your team members as they solve Azure Native Integrations' most critical problems, often via real-time conversations in Teams and Slack and with asynchronous communication in GitHub Issues, PRs, Discussions, and Projects - Communicating effectively to stakeholders and leadership of progress and risks - Coordinating work within the team and stakeholders, building relationships, and identifying opportunities and areas of improvement - Ensuring the team produces good architectural design outcomes, secure and resilient systems, and quality code—including a high bar for agentic safety, evaluation, and reliability across services - Ensuring the team iteratively ships features and bug fixes, balancing speed to market with future velocity - Conducting 1:1s with direct reports to provide regular feedback and ensure career growth and progression Qualifications Required Qualifications: - 10+ years' experience in software engineering, computer science, or related technical discipline. - Proven experience maintaining and delivering production software coding in languages including, but not limited to, Go, Ruby, Rust, Python, JavaScript, C, C++, C#, Java. - 3+ years' experience leading engineering teams delivering complex cloud, platform, integration, or service systems. - Experience setting technical direction and driving execution across multiple engineers or teams in a complex cross-functional environment. - Proven ability to hire, coach, and develop engineers while maintaining high standards for technical quality and operational excellence. - Proven ability to partner across organizations, align stakeholders, and improve reliability, delivery predictability, and engineering effectiveness for business-critical systems. - Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, or related field. Preferred Qualifications: - Experience leading or owning large-scale cloud platform, control-plane, marketplace, or partner/ISV integration systems, with a focus on reliability, performance, and developer experience. - Hands-on experience or strong working knowledge of applied AI—LLMs, agentic systems, orchestration frameworks, RAG, tool/function calling, guardrails, and AI evaluation/quality practices. - Proven ability to run operationally critical platforms, including incident response, on-call leadership, observability, and cross-org escalation. - Track record of cross-team collaboration and influence, working with partner owners and platform teams to drive best practices and paved paths. - Familiarity with provisioning, billing, identity, or storage integration challenges at scale, including diagnosing and reducing operational failures. - Experienced people manager able to balance execution, operational stability, and long-term platform investment in complex, high-change environments. - Experience driving strategy and execution across multiple dependent engineering teams. - Excellent written and verbal communication skills. - Passionate about fostering good engineering practices and processes. - Experience recruiting and retaining healthy teams, managing performance, and calibrating expectations. - Experience working remotely and collaborating with distributed teams. #AzureNativeIntegrations #CoreAIIndiaHiring Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. 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 with religious accommodations and/or reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations. This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled. Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. 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 with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.