Principal Software Engineering Manager - Databases

Leadership & Strategy: Define and evolve the long-term Fundamentals charter across engineering systems, reliability, security, observability, lifecycle, and AI-driven automation. Build a multi-year roadmap for service health, live‐site maturity, reliability KPIs, and standardization of platforms across Azure Data. People Management: Lead, coach, and grow a high-performing engineering team with strong fundamentals in distributed systems, observability, security, and reliability. Drive clarity, purpose, inclusion, and manager excellence; sustain high team trust and effectiveness scores and deliver to the team's charter and roadmap. Technical Execution: Own and deliver end‐to‐end features across the full engineering lifecycle, including architecture, implementation, testing, debugging, production rollout, and live‐site support Mentor and coach engineers through design reviews, code reviews, and operational learnings, raising engineering standards and on‐call readiness Incorporate customer requirements, usage patterns, and live‐site signals into engineering decisions to improve reliability, scale, and usability Drive an automation‐first engineering approach by leveraging AI across the engineering lifecycle—including design assistance, code quality improvements, test and validation automation, and migration tooling—while modernizing service telemetry, observability, and core service infrastructure. 12+ years of engineering experience in distributed systems, databases, platform engineering and cloud services. 4+ years leading engineering teams delivering highly available cloud services and infrastructure.

with large scale services architectures and technologies Experience building solutions with Azure is a plus Industry experience building and maintaining open-source software (OSS) and working with PostgreSQL Proven track record of leading design and implementation of complex systems and delivering them to production Proficient analytical skills with systematic and structured approaches to software design