Principal Software Engineering Manager

Overview

Viva Insights & Copilot Analytics Team

Microsoft Viva Insights (also known as Copilot Analytics) empowers organizations to thrive in the era of AI-powered work. As part of Microsoft 365 Copilot, it delivers privacy-protected, data-driven insights through a unified experience that helps organizations maximize the impact of their workforce by understanding and accelerating the adoption of Copilot and Agents. Our team builds this platform using cutting-edge AI and large-scale data systems to surface actionable insights from collaboration and business signals. We're hiring a Principal Software Engineering Manager to help deliver intuitive, AI-powered experiences that enable customers to understand work patterns, optimize collaboration, and realize potential by unlocking the full value of Microsoft Copilot. We also use generative AI extensively in our own development process to move fast, learn continuously, and deliver customer value at scale.

In the fast-moving world of AI innovation, we operate with a startup mindsetagile, customer-obsessed, and deeply collaborative. Our inclusive, growth-oriented culture is grounded in Microsoft's mission to empower every person and organization on the planet to achieve more.

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.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical and people leadership for one or more Copilot Analytics engineering team, driving the design, development, and operation of Copilot Analytics.
• Partner with product management, visual design & research teams to design and prioritize features that drive business impact.
• Own & influence system architecture and technical strategy for the team balancing near term delivery with long term architecture.
• Establish and uphold engineering best practices for availability, observability, reliability, security, and performance.
• Deliver engaging and impactful user experiences to drive user engagement.
• Deliver a high-quality, highly available service that meets customer SLAs across the globe.
• Drive long-term design thinking for systems and engineering processes with simplicity and maintainability as core tenets.
• Deliver value through a strong collaborative approach spanning many teams across geographies.
• Measure the impact of your features through deep user telemetry and experimentation, and take a data driven approach to learn and iterate.
• Grow your team and up-level your team's culture, wellbeing and productivity. Model empathy and be a driver for inclusiveness and collaboration.
• Remove roadblocks for your team. Plan, collaborate and execute with other engineering leaders across the company.
• Improve your team efficiency and agility through investments in our engineering systems (developer, monitoring and manageability tools).
• Mentor and develop engineers across all levels through sharing and learning.
• Be a role model for an open, honest and inclusive approach to problem solving.
  
  

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 12+ 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 experience in leading seasoned teams.
• Strong abilities in building diverse and inclusive teams with experience in guiding senior engineers.
• Proven track record for customer-focused innovation.
• Demonstrated depth and experience in design and implementation of large-scale cloud services.
• Excellent technical, cross group collaboration and communication skills.
• Knowledge of modern engineering practices like automated deployments with integrated quality gates and experience working with modern version control systems like Git.
• Knowledge of leveraging modern AI tools in Software Engineering.
• Experience building scalable & distributed backed systems or platforms along with knowledge of Microservices based architecture.
• Good understanding of backend & frontend integration along with basic knowledge of frontend technologies.
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience on Big Data & related ecosystem is a plus.
• Experience with data analysis and machine learning is a plus.
• Experience leading a team with AI driven software engineering is a plus.
• Experience partnering with data science or ML teams to deliver relevance driven user experiences.
• Background in building high availability, low latency services with strict SLA requirements.
• Experience hiring, mentoring, and growing senior technical talent.
• Ability to operate effectively with ambiguity and influence across organizational boundaries.
  
  

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Other Requirements: Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:

• Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
  
  

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

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 with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.