Principal Engineering Manager

1 Month ago • 12 Years + • Product Management

Job Summary

Job Description

Lead the innovation wave for Windows, building breakthrough collaborative and productive experiences for all users across devices. This role involves leading a team building AI, security, and UI platforms for Windows developers, utilizing cutting-edge technologies. Responsibilities include influencing product vision, managing a team of software engineers, ensuring project excellence, owning career development, and fostering a strong team culture. Collaboration with global Windows teams and other product groups is crucial. The successful candidate will drive innovation, deliver high-quality results, and work with some of the best minds in the industry.
Must have:
  • 12+ years technical experience
  • 5+ years team leadership
  • Experience leading large dev teams
  • Excellent technical skills
  • Strong design, coding, debugging skills
Good to have:
  • Windows development experience
  • C++/C#/Win32 experience
  • AI/ML model experience
  • Open source experience
  • Cross-group design coordination

Job Details

Overview

Would you like to lead the next wave of innovation for Windows and build breakthrough experiences for collaboration and productivity to delight all Windows users across all devices?


We are the Windows India team and looking for someone like you to lead one or more of such efforts. The team would be building breakthrough solutions for Windows customers with the goal of driving undeniable end-user pull. Our mission is to make sure customers won’t just engage with what we build – they’ll love it and tell others because we’ve solved their toughest problems in surprising and delightful ways.

We are building the AI, Security and UI platform that developers use to build the most engaging experiences for Windows. We are looking for a proven Engineering Leader to lead a team for taking the platform forward in their evolution. You will get to lead a team and partner with Windows teams across the globe to build, use and deploy various cutting-edge technologies in this space. It is a unique opportunity to work on both Microsoft technologies and one of the largest customer bases in the world! You will also get an opportunity to collaborate across various teams within Windows group and across product groups within the company and work with some of the best minds in the world!

 

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.

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#.
    • Or equivalent experience.
  • Atleast 5 years of team leadership and people management.
  • Experience in leading large dev teams to achieve complex goals on time and on budget.
  • Proven ability to find a shippable solution given conflicting and ambiguous requirements.
  • Excellent Technical skills in Driving Design, Architecture with cross product and services dependencies.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Windows development tools and technologies, including Visual Studio and Windows SDK, and familiarity with XAML.
  • C++/C#/Win32 application and systems programming experience.
  • Experience working with AI/ML models, CoPilot & related tools would be a bonus.
  • Experience working in open source, GitHub specifically, managing large collaborative open-source projects, and communicating with customers directly on GitHub.
  • The more diverse our team, the more inclusive our end result. To that end, we encourage applicants from any background and with any perspective. 
  • Strong design, coding, debugging, teamwork, partnership and communication skills.
  • Ability to Drive Innovation with customer obsession.
  • Experience with cross group design and coordination is an advantage.
  • You must be self-driven, curious to learn, proactive, and result oriented.

 

#W+Djobs

 

Responsibilities

  • Influence and align the product vision by collaborating with customers, partners, product management and engineering teams.
  • Managing a team of high-caliber Software Engineers, ensuring project and development excellence and technical leadership.
  • Deliver high quality results with full ownership and take the product to next level.
  • Own career development of team through active coaching.
  • Create a strong team culture of engineering excellence, customer passion, collaboration, diversity and inclusion. And of course, having fun too!
  • Hire and develop the best.

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