Principal Engineering Manager
Microsoft
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Posted on Aug 27, 2025
Principal Engineering Manager
Hyderabad, Telangana, India
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Date posted
Aug 27, 2025
Job number
1861425
Work site
Microsoft on-site only
Travel
0-25 %
Role type
People Manager
Profession
Software Engineering
Discipline
Software Engineering
Employment type
Full-Time
Overview
Our CEO Satya’s mission is for Microsoft to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Inline to that, Microsoft is embarking on the exciting new journey to revolutionize the most beloved and popular product ‘Windows’ even further to make it’s experiences more modern and seamless in order to delight its users and make them even more productive and successful.
The Windows team is growing a Centre of Excellence in Microsoft, India with a broad portfolio of applications to help innovate on the next version of Windows .. We are focussed on building New Signature and Personalized Experiences on various Windows flavors that will make our customer onboarding much more seamless and more productive . You will get an opportunity to collaborate across multiple teams within the Windows group and across product groups within the company.
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.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications:
- 12+ years of total experience designing, building and shipping software at scale and at least 5 years of team leadership and people management.
- Solid design, coding, debugging, teamwork, partnership and communication skills.
- Experience in leading large dev teams to achieve complex goals on time and on budget.
- Proven ability to find a shippable solution given conflicting and ambiguous requirements.
- Excellent Technical skills in Driving Design, Architecture with cross product and services dependencies.
- Ability to Drive Innovation with customer obsession.
- C++ design/architecture skills with expertise in leading teams in Windows development is a plus.
- Experience with cross group design and coordination is an advantage.
- A BS degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline or equivalent industry experience.
- You must be self-driven, curious to learn, proactive, and result-oriented.
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Responsibilities
We are looking for a proven Principal Engineering Manager to join our growing team. You will get to lead a team and partner with Windows teams across the globe to build, use and deploy various cutting-edge technologies in this space.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Influence and align the product vision by collaborating with customers, partners, product management and engineering teams.
- Managing a team of high-caliber Software Engineers, ensuring project and development excellence and technical leadership.
- Deliver high quality results with full ownership and take the product to next level.
- Own career development of team through active coaching.
- Create a strong team culture of engineering excellence, customer passion, collaboration, diversity and inclusion. And of course, having fun too!
- Hire and develop the best
Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.
Industry leading healthcare
Educational resources
Discounts on products and services
Savings and investments
Maternity and paternity leave
Generous time away
Giving programs
Opportunities to network and connect
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. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.