The Principal Engineering Manager will lead the architecture, delivery, and live-site excellence of RDX deployment services supporting CPS and MASP platforms. This role focuses on enabling safe, compliant, and data-driven deployment of Microsoft 365 client updates across global enterprise environments. The manager will work closely with Office application teams to ensure changes are introduced through staged, observable, and reversible deployment workflows. The position requires a strong background in building large-scale distributed services and influencing engineering outcomes across multiple product groups.

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
• Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements.
• 12+ years of experience building and operating production software or services.
• 5+ years of engineering management experience.

• Own CPS and MASP service architecture supporting Office client release and deployment workflows.
• Drive reliability, scalability, and availability of deployment services used across M365 app teams.
• Enable Safe-to-Change release infrastructure through staged rollouts and automated safeguards.
• Deliver automation-first rollback and remediation capabilities to minimize customer impact.
• Define telemetry pipelines and data signals used for release gating, validation, and rollback.
• Leverage usage, reliability, and performance data to inform deployment decisions.
• Build predictive deployment health signals to proactively detect regressions.
• Partner with Office Product teams to onboard changes safely through CPS/MASP.
• Establish measurable deployment quality and recovery SLAs.
• Lead and grow a team responsible for Tier-0 deployment services.

• Employees at Microsoft are often offered comprehensive, “world-class” benefits—including health and mental-wellness programs, competitive pay with bonuses and stock awards, and retirement/savings options. Time-off and flexibility are common, with generous vacation and holidays, parental and caregiver leave, and flexible work schedules, alongside learning support, employee resource groups, product discounts, and matching-gifts/volunteering programs. Specific benefits can vary by region.