Principal Software Engineering Manager
Technology, Data & Digital · Software & Web Development · Software Engineering · DevOps
In short
Microsoft Monetize is seeking a Principal Software Engineering Manager to lead the Infrastructure, Operations and Shared Tech team. This role involves people leadership, technical judgment, and advancing platform architecture and operational excellence in hybrid on-premises and Azure environments. The manager will own the team’s roadmap, guide engineers, and partner across various teams to deliver reliable shared capabilities.
Responsibilities
- Lead and develop engineers, fostering an inclusive culture of technical excellence and accountability.
- Own the team’s roadmap and delivery, balancing feature delivery with reliability, security, and cost.
- Guide shared-platform architecture, leading the design and evolution of reusable services and libraries.
- Advance low-latency software engineering for high-throughput Linux services, maintaining a high bar for quality.
- Modernize distributed caching and state services, ensuring predictable behavior under various conditions.
- Enable model-backed serving and traffic management, integrating model scores into real-time services.
- Evolve logging and streaming infrastructure, addressing throughput, backpressure, and data integrity.
- Lead safe infrastructure modernization to Azure through staged validation and controlled cutovers.
- Drive operational excellence, improving service-level objectives, monitoring, and incident response.
- Improve developer productivity and secure delivery through advanced tooling and processes.
Requirements
- 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 OR equivalent experience.
Desired 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 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.
- 3+ years of people management experience leading software engineering teams, including coaching, performance management, and career development.
- Experience designing, delivering, and operating large-scale distributed systems, including performance-sensitive backend services.
- Experience leading cross-team engineering initiatives involving shared platforms, infrastructure, or production-service modernization.
- Solid understanding of software architecture and production reliability, including concurrency, resource management, and distributed-system failure modes.
- Experience with high-performance C/C++ software on Linux, including multithreading, asynchronous I/O, memory ownership, profiling, and efficient data structures.
- Experience building shared libraries or foundational services adopted by multiple engineering teams, including interface evolution and backward compatibility.
- Experience with distributed caches or key-value systems such as Aerospike, Garnet, Redis, or comparable technologies, including replication, failover, capacity planning, and client integration.
- Experience with Kafka or comparable streaming systems and high-throughput logging or data-distribution pipelines.
- Experience integrating machine learning scores or model-backed decisions into latency-sensitive production services; model-training experience is not required.
- Experience with traffic shaping, rate limiting, admission control, or other mechanisms for balancing throughput, capacity, and business value.
- Experience operating Azure and hybrid infrastructure, including virtual machine scale sets, networking, storage, and infrastructure-as-code technologies such as Terraform or Bicep.
- Experience with configuration management tools such as Puppet or comparable systems, CI/CD pipelines, and automated build and test environments.
- Experience delivering migrations using feature flags, experimentation, shadow traffic, staged rollouts, and rollback strategies.
- Experience with observability technologies such as Grafana or OpenTelemetry and with service-level objectives, incident management, and operational automation.
- Experience with advertising auctions, pricing, inventory-quality controls, or other high-volume real-time transaction systems.
Benefits
- The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $142,800 - $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, 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 is an equal opportunity employer.
- All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances.
Skills
C++CC#JavaJavaScriptPythonAzureTerraformBicepPuppetGrafanaOpenTelemetryKafkaRedisAerospikeGarnet
#Software Engineering#People Manager#Infrastructure#Operations#Shared Tech#Real-time Platform#Distributed Systems#Caching#Cloud#Azure#C++#Linux#MLOps
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Company
MicrosoftJob Posted
4 days ago
Employment Type
Full Time
Work mode
Hybrid
Salary
US$142,800–274,800 / year
Hours per week
32
Experience Level
Senior
Locations
United States
Qualification
Bachelor
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