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Principal Engineering Manager

Microsoft

Microsoft

Other Engineering
Posted on Oct 17, 2025

Principal Engineering Manager

Hyderabad, Telangana, India

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Date posted
Oct 17, 2025
Job number
1898131
Work site
3 days / week in-office
Travel
0-25 %
Role type
People Manager
Profession
Software Engineering
Discipline
Software Engineering
Employment type
Full-Time

Overview

Do you want to work on a product that touches and transforms the lives of billions of people across the globe? Do you want to work on the next set of innovations to transform it further and revolutionize it?

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.

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.

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:

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 15+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
    • OR equivalent experience.
  • 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.
  • You must be self-driven, curious to learn, proactive, and result-oriented.
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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 solid 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.