JobsPrincipal Software Engineering Manager
Location
Redmond, WA
Type
Full-time
Posted
7/3/2026
Compensation
$142,800 - $304,200 per year
Undergraduate with 5+ Years of Experience
Master's with 5+ Years of Experience
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·FY 2025Job description
Microsoft is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a team of over 12 engineers on the Fabric Platform team within Azure Data. This role focuses on guiding, growing, and supporting engineers while setting technical direction and ensuring reliable service delivery across multiple regions. The ideal candidate will have experience in managing high-scale cloud services and a strong background in engineering. The team is dedicated to building a unified data platform that enhances analytics and drives a data culture.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field and 6+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in languages such as C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements.
- Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field and 8+ years of technical engineering experience is preferred.
- 4+ years of people management experience is preferred.
Responsibilities
- Manage, coach, and support a team of 12+ individual contributors on the Fabric Platform team.
- Grow the team by developing engineers into independent senior and principal contributors.
- Create clarity for the team by setting the right priorities and direction for scaling the service.
- Apply high-scale design principles across every tier of the service.
- Quickly diagnose and drive resolution of problems across a complex, distributed service.
- Set technical direction and delivery for the team, aligning execution with the broader Azure Data and Microsoft Fabric mission.
- Partner across Azure Data to deliver a unified data platform experience, governance, and architecture for customers.
Benefits
- 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.
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