Would you like to work on the team that powers experiences on the most popular operating system – Windows – and impact over a billion people globally with your day-to-day work? If yes, come join us!

We are the Windows Cross Devices India team empowering Windows users across a diverse set of devices. It is a unique opportunity to work on both Microsoft technologies and one of the largest customer bases in the world! You will also get an opportunity to collaborate across various teams within Windows group and across product groups within the company and work with some of the best minds in the world! 

We are looking for a proven Principal Software 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.  The more diverse our team, the more inclusive our end result. To that end, we encourage applicants from any background and with any perspective.

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

• Influence and align the product vision by collaborating with customers, partners, product management, engineeringand data 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  

• Create a team culture of engineering excellence, customer passion, collaboration, diversity and inclusion. And of course, having fun too! 

• Own career development of team through active coaching to hire and develop the best talent! 

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science OR related technical field AND 12+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including C++, C#, and 4+ years of team leadership and people management experience.

• OR equivalent experience.

• Strong proficiency in C++ and/or C# programming languages. 

• Experience working on Open-Source projects in GitHub.  

• Solid understanding of software design principles,architecture and best practices. 

• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills. 

• Good design, coding, debugging, teamwork, partnership and communication skills. 

• Strong technical and analytical skills, excellent cross-group collaboration, and a passion for customers.

• Self-driven, curious to learn with strong bias for action.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Windows development tools and technologies, including Visual Studio and the Windows SDK. XAML familiarity is a plus.  

• Win32 application and systems programming experience will be a bonus. 

• Experience of developing and operating a production quality service on any cloud especially Azure will be a huge asset. 

• 4+ years people management experience.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, 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 (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html) .