Principal Engineering Manager

Would you like the satisfaction that comes with keeping every person and organization on the planet protected and productive each month through delivering high quality Windows updates? Do you want to explore and discover your full engineering potential? Do you enjoy working in a high performing diverse team with comradery and passion for development? If you answered “yes,” Windows Servicing and Delivery Update Platform team is the place for you. We are the Windows Servicing and Delivery (WSD) organization. We deliver updates to every Windows-based device in the world to protect users and enable them to be productive. While Security remains our primary focus, we also enable our commercial and enterprise customers by enabling new device support, addressing reliability and upgrade blocking issues. Our work is critical for the Windows family of devices, SurfaceHub, Hololens, Azure and more. We are an agile team and ship twice every month, impacting over a billion Windows devices in the ecosystem. You will collaborate with your teammates in IDC, and your partner teams in Ireland and Redmond, Washington, USA. The Update Platform team is seeking a talented and driven software engineering manager with a strong background in firmware and middleware development. As an Engineering Manager, you will manage a team of highly talented software engineers working on the Windows Update Platform on the client side. You will collaborate with geographically distributed partner teams to accomplish your team’s work. You will be responsible for all areas of the engineering lifecycle, including collaboration with customers, milestone planning, technical and design leadership, shipping features with quality and tracking OKRs/KPIs. 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.