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Principal Software Engineering Manager, Windows Platform & Developer Team

United States, Redmond Employment contract 142800.00 - 274800.00 USD / Year · Job Posted May 27, 2026
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Windows is evolving beyond a platform for applications towards a foundation on which AI agents live, reason, and act. Come join our frontier organization in the Windows Platform and Developer division focused on bringing truly useful and secure AI to the worlds most widely used operating system. We're looking for an experienced Engineering Manager to lead a team of 7-10 engineers shaping how agents and claws are built, run, and securely governed. We're excited by candidates that live at the intersection of systems-level programming and design, actively riding the wave of AI-assisted software development, and passionate about growing individual contributors and team culture. 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

  • Owning the technical direction for new agentic capabilities, from design to delivery
  • Lead cross-functional partnerships with product, design, data, leaders of internal Microsoft product groups, as well as external partnerships with each frontier artificial intelligence (AI) company
  • Lead, mentor, and grow a team of engineers, including running effective 1:1s, providing direct feedback, and building clear growth paths for engineers at each stage of their career
  • Recruiting and retaining top systems engineering talent, with a bias toward people who are curious about and energized by AI-native development
  • Represent your team's work to leadership, communicating judgement in trade-offs, communicating decisions, risks, and strategic context with clarity and confidence
  • Thought leadership for the broader organization

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience

Nice to have

  • Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ 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 12+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience
  • 4+ years of people management experience
  • Ability to communicate technical details clearly across organizational boundaries
  • Methodical analytical skills with systematic and structured approach to software design
  • Confident and articulate in expressing ideas to a mixed audience with varying views and challenges
  • A sense of personal ownership and accountability, together with the ability to develop and deliver to deadlines while managing internal stakeholder expectations
  • Self-motivated with a dependable drive for reaching across teams and organizations to make progress collaboratively
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