The Principal Software Engineer Manager will lead the Email Semantic Indexing team, focusing on enhancing Outlook search and Microsoft 365 Copilot through Responsible AI practices. This role involves overseeing the index lifecycle and operational health while driving improvements in performance, cost efficiency, and experimentation. As a people leader, the manager will foster an inclusive culture, support engineers' growth, and ensure adherence to best practices in software development. The position requires collaboration with various teams to translate innovative approaches into production-ready capabilities.

• 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.
• Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements.

• Lead and develop the team while fostering an inclusive, accountable, learning-oriented culture.
• Own architecture discussions and guide design decisions for email semantic indexing.
• Partner with product management and engineering stakeholders to clarify requirements and define success measures.
• Guide the team in building extensible, maintainable, secure, and high-performance software.
• Lead safe deployments, monitoring, incident response, and production debugging.
• Establish telemetry and evaluation practices to understand indexing behavior and downstream retrieval impact.
• Apply least-access principles and ensure compliance with security and regulatory standards.
• Lead disciplined adoption of AI tools for development, testing, debugging, and operational workflows.

• 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.