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Principal Engineering Manager

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Microsoft Corporation

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United States , Mountain View

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Salary:

163000.00 - 296400.00 USD / Year

Job Description:

Viva Engage connects people through communities, bringing leaders and employees together to share knowledge, clarify priorities, and build relationships. Viva Engage (formerly Yammer) is the premier tool to create multi-directional dialogue between tens of millions of employees worldwide every month. As a Principal Engineering Manager, you will lead and manage a team of engineers spanning all aspects of the software engineering life cycle and a history of delivering highly available products and services with quality and on schedule. The day-to-day responsibilities include a blend of technical, hands-on leadership with people management and partnership skills. Our stack includes, Linux on Azure, GraphQL API gateway, Postgres, CosmosDB, Redis, RabbitMQ, Java and Ruby on Rails services, deployed as docker containers, Mesos and Kubernetes container orchestration. Observability: Grafana metrics, Azure Data Explorer log aggregation, React.js. Redux, Relay. Engage team members are at the forefront of driving artificial intelligence (AI) applications and Copilot adoption to make communication and information sharing easy and authentic. Our work supports top challenges for our customers, including digital safety, trusted security standards, and deep analytics to help our customers maximize reach, reduce inefficiencies, and create a thriving organizational culture. We would love to have you join the team driving innovation, connection, and community for our valued global customers. Our engineers develop the services that power all our experiences. Viva Engage has a plethora of interesting engineering challenges - like supporting large-scale conversations and communities with hundreds of thousands of participants. We deploy new code every day to our tens of millions of users and are constantly innovating to improve the system and deliver a delightful experience. 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.

Job Responsibility:

  • Build, develop, grow and lead a team of engineers
  • Lead the vision, strategy, and execution for Dev Tooling and Engineering System with emphasis on driving productivity and efficiency
  • Drive adoption and impact of common dev tooling and practices to build, test and deploy Engage product with required compliance and security
  • Partner with other Engineering, Infra, Tooling and Engineering System teams within and beyond our organization to drive strategic decisions and execution excellence, leading to measurable business impact
  • Provide oversight, accountability, and leadership for technical architecture and decisions for timely delivery of high quality solutions to meeting customer needs
  • Foster a culture that drives innovation, engineering excellence, guiding and motivating the team to constantly improve engineering productivity and dev experience
  • Embody our culture and values

Requirements:

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years of technical engineering experience in Engineering System and Developer Tooling with cloud infrastructure and distributed systems using coding languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience
  • Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements
  • Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter

Nice to have:

  • Master'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 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
  • 6+ years people management experience with Engineering System and Developer Tooling
  • 5+ years of experience planning, designing, implementing, and delivering large projects with emphasis on Engineering Productivity and Efficiency
  • Experience working across disciplines, groups, and teams to drive Engineering Productivity
  • Experience architecting and delivering distributed cloud services, Azure preferred
  • Experience building AI tools for AI First/AI Native product teams

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
January 30, 2026

Employment Type:
Fulltime
Work Type:
Hybrid work
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