Principal Software Engineering Manager – Microsoft 365 Copilot Growth

We're evolving the acquisition engine that powers how hundreds of millions of users discover and adopt Microsoft 365 Copilot. As a Principal Software Engineering Manager, you'll lead a full-stack team that rapidly ships experiments and features, learns from data, and scales successful patterns across the Microsoft 365 suite (Copilot Chat, Teams, Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and more). You'll combine deep technical judgment with product-led growth (PLG) practices to improve monetization while investing in modern engineering fundamentals that enable rapid, safe iteration.

What Makes This Role Unique:

• Massive surface area & impact: Your work directly shapes how customers discover, try, and adopt Copilot across Microsoft 365.
• Engineering for velocity: You'll modernize fundamentals (tooling, pipelines, telemetry) to shorten the idea-to-data loop and safely scale experimentation.
• AI at the core: You'll lead the adoption of agentic workflows in engineering (from code to ops), keeping the team at the forefront of the industry shift.
• Collaborate in a true One Microsoft fashion: Partner with worldclass PMs, designers, data scientists, and engineering teams across the company to land high leverage, cross-suite solutions.
• Strategic business alignment: You’ll make technical investments that support measurable business outcomes, balancing business priorities with engineering goals to maximize customer value and impact.

How We Work:

• Customer-obsessed & data-informed: We form bold hypotheses, ship safely, measure rigorously, and iterate.
• Engineering excellence: We invest in tests, telemetry, agentic coding enablement, and continuous hardening to earn the right to go faster.
• Inclusive at our core: We welcome diverse perspectives and design accessible experiences for a global audience.
• Outcomes over output: We celebrate learning and hold ourselves accountable to business and customer impact.

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.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a high-performing team of software engineers across varying levels and backgrounds, coaching for impact, inclusion, and career growth.
• Own the engineering roadmap for our acquisition engine, balancing rapid hypothesis testing with durable platform investments.
• Drive developer productivity with AI‑assisted and agentic practices, while elevating engineering standards of accelerating velocity and ensuring reliability.
• Ship data-driven experiments that improve funnel metrics in close partnership with PM, Design, Data Science and Research.
• Model our culture of growth mindset, clarity, accountability, and inclusive behaviors, removing systemic blockers so your team ships with speed and quality.
• Embody our culture and values

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• 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
• 2+ years of people management experience leading software engineers, with evidence of hiring, coaching, and performance development.
• 2+ years of experience scaling developer productivity (AI‑agentic coding, CI/CD automation, test strategy, observability, reliability/SRE).
• 3+ years of experience architecting distributed systems, APIs, data pipelines, and telemetry.
• OR equivalent experience.

Other Requirements: 

Candidates must be able to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements that are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: 

• Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
• 4+ years people management experience.
• Fluency in our core stack: C#/.NET (services, APIs) and React + TypeScript (front‑end).
• Demonstrated success running hypothesis‑driven experiments.
• Security, compliance, privacy‑by‑design mindset; experience with cost‑aware engineering and performance optimization.
• Strong collaborator with PM, Design, Data Science, and Research; communicates clearly with both technical and non-technical audiences.
• OR 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#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
• OR equivalent experience.

Software Engineering M5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $139,900 - $274,800 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $188,000 - $304,200 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until October 7, 2025.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.  We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

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