Principal Engineering Manager

OneDrive is Microsoft’s solution for cloud file storage - the one place for all your important documents, files and folders, photos, videos and more, across work and life, and on all your devices. SharePoint is Microsoft's solution for managing business and education intranets, data workflows, and critical customer data. 

As we continue to grow our market share, we are faced with many core infrastructure and scale challenges driving a need to build resilient systems while ensuring no customers are impacted throughout the change management lifecycle. The OneDrive and SharePoint team is looking for a motivated and strong Principal Engineering Manager to be a part of this journey. 

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

• Passionate about building a great team and who puts people and culture at the forefront. 
• Not afraid to dig into hard engineering problems to improve the core fundamentals of our systems.
• Add critical and exciting new features.
• Revolutionize how our engineers work day-to-day.
• Try new things like bringing the power of machine learning and statistical analysis at scale to solve these and other problems.  
• Work with peers across the company in Office, Azure, Microsoft365, and Research.
• Guide a team of engineers, mentoring them through this journey and providing technical and architectural leadership as we evolve our scalable, distributed service. 

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor'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
• OR equivalent experience.
• Prior experience with developing large high-volume services, with service-oriented development and cloud-based systems. 
• Demonstrated commitment to the success of others, as a leader in the team you will be expected to mentor and manage a team of developers. 
• Strong technical abilities, problem solving, design, rapid prototyping, coding, and debugging skills. 
• OR equivalent experience.

Other Requirements:
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements 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:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 15+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
• OR Master'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.
• Good communication skills and a track record of cross-group/cross-discipline collaboration. 
• Quick learner who thrives in an ambiguous environment. 
• Team player with a positive attitude. 
• Excellent collaboration skills and ability to be adaptable and agile in development. 
• Demonstrated experience as a technical lead or people manager. 
• OR Master'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 M6 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $163,000 - $296,400 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 $220,800 - $331,200 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 20th, 2025.

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