Principal Software Engineering Manager

Manage, coach, and support a team of 12+ individual contributors on the Fabric Platform team.

Grow the team by developing engineers into independent senior and principal contributors.

Create clarity for the team by setting the right priorities and direction for scaling the service.

Apply high-scale design principles across every tier of the service.

Draw on your experience managing high-scale cloud services to guide the team in running the platform reliably across multiple regions.

Quickly diagnose and drive resolution of problems across a complex, distributed service.

Partner across Azure Data to deliver a unified data platform experience, governance, and architecture for customers.

Embody our culture and values 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.

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.

Proven track record of mentoring engineers and developing them into senior and principal contributors.

operating distributed services with strong reliability, availability, and performance targets (SLAs/SLOs).

Background designing or scaling data platforms, analytics, or large-scale storage and compute systems.

Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to partner across engineering, product, and program teams.

Excellent communication skills, with the ability to create clarity and drive alignment in ambiguous, fast-moving environments.