Principal Engineering Manager

Are you looking for an opportunity to join a team of engineers in positively affecting the experience of every consumer who uses Microsoft products? The OSSE team in OPG group is focused on building client experiences and services that light up Microsoft Account experiences across all devices and platforms. We are passionate about working together to build delightful and inclusive account experiences that empower customers to get the most out of what Microsoft has to offer.We’re looking for a collaborative, inclusive and customer obsessed engineer to help us build and sustain authentication experiences like Passkeys as well as engage with our customers by building experiences to help users keep their account secure and connected across multiple devices and applications.We're looking for an enthusiastic

Principal Engineering Manager

to help us build account experiences and deliver business Intelligence through data for experiences across 1.5 billion Windows devices and various Microsoft products. Your responsibilities will include working closely with a variety of teams such as Engineering, Program Management, Design and application partners to understand the key business questions for customer-facing scenarios, to set up the key performance indicators, and setup data pipelines to identify insights and experiment ideas that moves our business metrics.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.

Responsibilities

• Opportunity to define our strategy, design/develop products and build & grow a team from the ground up.
• Bring clarity, create energy, and drive results – you’ll set a vision, rally the team behind it, and deliver for our customers.
• Demonstrate the Microsoft manager attributes of coach, model, and care with the engineers on your team, so they all learn, grow, and succeed.
• Plan and prioritize work for your team, including collaborating with partner organizations.
• Create an inclusive environment that attracts and retains high-performing engineers.
• Guides partnership with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., product manager, UX designer, technical lead) to determine user requirements within and across teams.
• Drive product roadmap and execution with clarity, including translating abstract problem statement into a high-quality product strategy and design.
• Lead the research, design, implementation, optimization of experiences and services that are shared across the Office suite.  
• Lead the design and implementation of core libraries utilized by the entire suite e.g. Fluent UI components.  
• Harness AI to maximize own and team’s engineering velocity and craft world-class AI-powered functionality.
• Work productively with Product Management and Design disciplines and partner closely with teams across the Office web ecosystem.
  

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• 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.
• 6+ years of software development experience in C#, C++, .NET, JavaScript/TypeScript, or similar programming languages or platforms. 
• 2+ years of experience as an engineering manager, with a passion for coaching and mentoring others.
• Proficiency in full-stack Web development including Web front-end development experience with JavaScript/Typescript and HTML5 and high-scale distributed systems/cloud service development.  
• Proficiency building and shipping production grade software. 
• Expertise in leveraging AI to improve engineering processes as well as developing AI-enabled products.
• Track record of delivering products, features and functionality on time, with extremely high quality. 
• Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills. 
• Great verbal and written communication skills and ability to work cross- team in collaborative environment. 
  

Preferred Qualifications:

 

• Deep expertise with web frameworks like React.js and FluentUI.  
• Expertise with browser development tools and its network and performance profiling capabilities. 
• Experience with Azure Cloud and ADO (Azure DevOps) pipeline is preferred but not required. 
  

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