Principal Engineering Manager

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Principal Engineering Manager

Hyderabad, Telangana, India


Date posted
Sep 16, 2025
Job number
1877879
Work site
3 days / week in-office
Travel
0-25 %
Role type
People Manager
Profession
Software Engineering
Discipline
Software Engineering
Employment type
Full-Time

Overview

The Windows team is growing a Centre of Excellence in Microsoft, India with a broad portfolio of applications and services focused on building New Signature and Personalized Experiences helping customer onboarding much more seamless and productive. This role offers the opportunity to lead and manage end-to-end consumer experiences for Xbox subscriptions (Gaming) and Devices, spanning Windows and AMC (account.microsoft.com). AMC is a Windows service and the sixth most visited site at Microsoft.

This team has full ownership of the verticals, including the backend MVS (Member View Services) layer—large-scale APIs that federate Microsoft account data across various services. MVS powers AMC as well as other public and private clients such as Copilot and Microsoft Support. On the Gaming front, we operate as a first-class experimentation team across Windows and AMC, delivering proven impact by retaining and acquiring thousands of Xbox subscribers through AI-driven personalization, building our own ML models, and generating millions in savings for Microsoft.

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.

Qualifications

Required qualifications:
  • 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.
  • Atleast 5 years of team leadership and people management.
  • Solid design, coding, debugging, teamwork, partnership and communication skills.
  • Proven track record of leading complex projects and delivering successful solutions at scale for Web applications and cloud services.
  • Excellent Technical skills in Driving Design, Architecture with cross product and services dependencies.
  • Ability to Drive Innovation with customer obsession.
  • Basics of ML concepts/algorithms and LLMs is a must.
  • Windows and/or C++ development experience is a plus.
  • Experience with cross group design and coordination is an advantage.
  • You must be self-driven, curious to learn, proactive, and result-oriented.
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Responsibilities

We are looking for a proven Principal Engineering Manager to join our growing team. You will get to lead a team and partner with Windows teams across the globe to build, use and deploy various cutting-edge technologies in this space.

Primary Responsibilities:
  • Influence and align the product vision by collaborating with customers, partners, product management and engineering teams.
  • Managing a team of high-caliber Software Engineers, ensuring project and development excellence and technical leadership.
  • Deliver high quality results with full ownership and take the product to the next level.
  • Own career development of team through active coaching.
  • Create a strong team culture of engineering excellence, customer passion, collaboration, diversity and inclusion. And of course, having fun too!
  • Hire and develop the best!
Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.
Industry leading healthcare
Educational resources
Discounts on products and services
Savings and investments
Maternity and paternity leave
Generous time away
Giving programs
Opportunities to network and connect
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 and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.

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