Group Software Engineering Manager

Overview

Microsoft Digital (MSD) builds and manages the critical products and services that Microsoft runs on. We boldly pursue big ideas that power transformational advances at Microsoft and for our customers, while helping Microsoft teams work smarter, faster, and more securely every day. Microsoft Digital employees have deep technical and business expertise, customer insights, and a clear point of view that comes from first-hand, large-scale experience with Microsoft and industry solutions. We are engineers, technology leaders and experts, digital transformation change agents, and customer advocates.

We have exciting opportunities for you to innovate, influence, transform, inspire, and grow within our organization and we encourage you to apply to learn more!

Do you want to lead the team building the intelligent manageability and automation foundation for one of the world's largest enterprise networks?

We are hiring a Principal Software Group Engineering Manager to serve as the Group Engineering Manager for Network Manageability and Tooling. This leader will manage engineering teams responsible for the platforms, tools, and shared capabilities used to design, manage, observe, automate, and operate Microsoft's global enterprise network.

An important part of this role is shaping and delivering a portfolio of platform capabilities that supports our Network Graph and Network IQ architecture and enables the next generation of AI-powered network engineering and operations. Depending on organizational priorities, the role will own selected platform components and partner closely with adjacent engineering, data, architecture, and service teams on others. Together, these capabilities will help create a connected understanding of network topology, configuration, state, health, risk, and operational context, enabling engineers and AI agents to design, deploy, troubleshoot, and remediate the network more intelligently.

This role is accountable for both people leadership and technical strategy. You will lead, coach, and develop engineering managers, technical leads, and engineers while setting a cohesive direction across network manageability, tooling, observability, platform services, workflow automation, and AI-assisted network operations. You will partner across engineering, product management, architecture, security, and network service teams to translate complex operational needs into shared capabilities that are secure, reliable, extensible, and reusable across the organization.

As an M2 leader, you will build a high-performing and inclusive organization, develop technical and people leaders, establish clear ownership and accountability, and balance near-term delivery and service health with the long-term transformation of how Microsoft's network is engineered and operated.

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.

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Responsibilities

In this role, you will:

• Lead, coach, and develop engineering managers, technical leads, and engineers, fostering an inclusive culture with clear accountability, effective collaboration, and opportunities for career growth.
• Partner with product management, architecture, security, and network service teams to establish a cohesive strategy for network manageability, shared tooling, and AI-powered network engineering and operations.
• Provide technical leadership for secure, scalable, and reusable platform capabilities that support Network Graph and Network IQ, enabling engineers, AI agents, and digital workers to reason across network data and operational context. Shape how these capabilities support Microsoft's Frontier Firm operating model by augmenting engineering workflows, automating repetitive operations, accelerating decision-making, and improving human and agent collaboration.
• Lead the transformation of the engineering organization toward an AI-first engineering model, equipping engineers to use AI throughout the software development and operations lifecycle, redesign workflows around human-agent collaboration, and build the skills and practices needed to deliver greater impact with AI.
• Oversee engineering plans, architecture and design documents, release plans, and execution across multiple products and platform capabilities, balancing near-term delivery with long-term modernization.
• Ensure all software services meet reliability, security, compliance, privacy, accessibility, and engineering-fundamentals requirements. Establish measurable service-health objectives and drive disciplined practices across design, coding, testing, deployment, observability, incident management, resiliency, and continuous improvement.
• Lead the resolution of complex service incidents and systemic engineering issues, using telemetry, Network IQ, and AI-assisted insights to improve reliability, security, performance, and engineering efficiency. Communicate technical direction, risks, trade-offs, and progress to engineering teams and senior stakeholders, building alignment and accountability across organizational boundaries.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or a related technical discipline AND 8+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python,
• OR equivalent experience.

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

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or a related technical field AND 12+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python; OR Master's Degree in Computer Science or a related technical field AND 10+ years of technical engineering experience; OR equivalent experience.
• 2+ years of experience designing, building, or operating large-scale software platforms, cloud infrastructure, network systems, or distributed services.
• 6+ years of people management experience leading software, network, infrastructure, or platform engineering teams, including experience developing engineering managers and senior technical leaders.
• Experience defining architecture and roadmaps for large-scale distributed systems and services, enterprise networking, cloud infrastructure, network manageability, observability, automation, knowledge graph, or AI-enabled platform capabilities.
• Experience transforming engineering practices through AI-assisted development and digital workers, operating highly available services, applying reliability, security, compliance, and engineering fundamentals, and influencing technical decisions across organizational boundaries.

Software Engineering M6 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $165,600 - $296,400 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $220,800 - $331,200 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:

https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

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.