Principal Software Engineering Manager

About the role

The Windows + Devices Fundamentals team improves the reliability, performance, responsiveness, battery life, memory efficiency, and overall health of Windows devices. We are seeking a Principal Software Engineering Manager to define strategy and lead an engineering organization responsible for critical Windows Fundamentals data and service capabilities.

What you'll do

• Define the organizational strategy, portfolio, and multi-year roadmap for Windows Fundamentals backend services, telemetry systems, data pipelines, metrics
• Guide architecture and execution across scalable systems for telemetry ingestion, transformation, orchestration, storage, health monitoring, analytics, diagnostics
• Establish organization-wide standards for service reliability, security, compliance, privacy, observability, data quality, schema evolution, deployment safety
• Lead the organization in using large-scale telemetry, statistical methods, experimentation, and systems debugging to identify systemic opportunities
• Drive architectural simplification, automation, AI-assisted analysis, and self-service capabilities that detect issues earlier, reduce operational toil

What you need

• 12–22 years in software engineering
• SQL
• Python
• C++
• C#
• ETL
• Azure
• B.Sc or B.Tech or B.E. or BCA

Good to have

• Product strategy
• Power BI
• Machine learning
• C
• PowerShell
• Operational risk