Principal Software Engineering Manager

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The team owns the One Microsoft PDF stack, delivering high quality PDF experiences. We enable users to consume web content through immersive reading capabilities, translation and read aloud experiences as well as advanced screenshot and editing features among other key innovations. We are deeply engaged in building AI powered experiences through innovative growth ideas to help users consume content efficiently.

Are you an amazing engineer with penchant for taking up big problems and hard challenges? Do you enjoy the thrill and energy of a startup, challenges of cutting-edge innovations, coupled with engineering rigor? Would you like to be part of an agile, learning, empowered, energetic, and collaborative team? Do you believe in clean design, crafted implementation, being meticulous about quality, obsessing with the customer and innovating daily? The extensive reach of Edge coupled with building delightful everyday experiences on a range of devices offers exceptional opportunities for independent ownership, working on cutting-edge technologies and professional growth.

Come join a team of highly motivated developers working on Microsoft Edge! We are looking for exceptional technical leaders to build the best-in-class reading experience for the next generation. We expect you to leverage your expertise, drive technical strategy, incubate innovations, implement early prototypes, conduct architectural explorations, evaluate architecture approaches, alternatives, and tradeoffs, and drive product requirements. You will get an opportunity to win consumer mindshare with differentiated experiences and innovate growth ideas.

You should have a great sense of customer empathy, rely on data driven decision making, have a passion for disruptive new ideas, and enjoy driving innovation while balancing focused execution. The ideal candidate is a hands-on engineering leader who motivates the team to achieve more, works across team boundaries, and collaborates with partners. If you’re ready to work on the cutting-edge client and services innovation that will enable 10x growth in adoption and engagement and serve millions of people who will use them every day as they browse the web, this is the role for you.

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.

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
  • OR equivalent experience.
    
• 4+ years of people management experience with managing team of seven plus individuals.
  
• A BS or MS in Computer Science or a related technical discipline.
  
• Consistent track record of shipping compelling technologies across multiple product release cycles.
  
• Excellent design, coding, debugging, and problem-solving skills.
  
• Ability to design highly usable, performant, scalable, world-ready, accessible software.

• 10+ years of professional industry experience working on large projects.
• Experience with creating and operating services in Azure and/or competitive offerings.
  
• Experience in C++ or client development.
  
• Experience in Microsoft .NET technologies (C# and .NET Framework) and/or competitive offerings
  
• Effective collaboration skills driving changes at scale.
  
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  
• Experience in Machine Learning, Data Driven Engineering or Agile Development is a plus.
  
• Experience with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and other web technologies is a plus.

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• Be a great engineering leader for the team and broader organization. You will be leading a highly talented, technically diverse team of engineers and are expected to provide technical directions.
• Plan, track and deliver scenarios in a fast-paced agile environment.
• Be customer obsessed and collaborate with product, design, and data disciplines. Partner with other teams to accomplish business goals.
• Design and provide technical guidance to large feature area, ability to understand the technical details of a complex area and review the code in depth.
• Rigorous quality engineering practices across all phases of product development and deployment.
• Use agile development principles to produce continuous value while readily adapting to change.
• Model Microsoft cultural values and foster a healthy and inclusive team environment.
• Invest in people on your team, nurture them through coaching and caring.