Principal Software Engineering Manager

Overview

Microsoft is a company where passionate innovators come to collaborate, envision what can be and take their careers further. This is a world of more possibilities, more innovation, more openness, and the sky is the limit thinking in a cloud-enabled world.

Microsoft’s Azure Data engineering team is leading the transformation of analytics in the world of data with products like databases, data integration, big data analytics, messaging & real-time analytics, and business intelligence. The products our portfolio include Microsoft Fabric, Azure SQL DB, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure PostgreSQL, Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Service Bus, Azure Event Grid, and Power BI. Our mission is to build the data platform for the age of AI, powering a new class of data-first applications and driving a data culture.

Within Microsoft Fabric, the Platform team builds and operates the unified foundation that brings together all Fabric workloads into a single, cohesive experience. The platform provides shared infrastructure, governance, security, and a unified data model that enables customers to manage their entire data estate in one place. This team is central to delivering Fabric as a complete, end-to-end intelligence platform.

OneLake team is hiring for Senior Software Engineer OneLake is the unified, logical data lake at the heart of the Microsoft Fabric platform, often described as the “OneDrive for data.” It provides a single, SaaS-based, multi-cloud data lake that automatically integrates with every Fabric tenant, eliminating fragmented storage silos and enabling seamless data sharing across workloads. Built on Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2, OneLake supports open data formats like Delta Parquet, allowing multiple analytical engines—such as T-SQL, Apache Spark, and Analysis Services to operate on the same data without duplication. For a software engineer, this means working on cutting-edge capabilities like API parity with Azure Storage, cross-cloud virtualization through shortcuts, and high-performance client components that optimize data access across ecosystems. The role offers opportunities to innovate in areas like governance, diagnostics, and integration with advanced analytics platforms, ensuring secure, scalable, and performant solutions for a truly data-driven enterprise.

We do not just value differences or different perspectives. We seek them out and invite them in so we can tap into the collective power of everyone in the company. As a result, our customers are better served.

Responsibilities

• Build, lead, and mentor world-class engineering teams.
• Define technical strategy and architecture for large-scale cloud platforms.
• Deliver secure, reliable, scalable, and high-quality customer-facing services.
• Drive engineering excellence across AI, development, testing, security, and operations.
• Lead cross-functional collaboration with Product, Design, Data Science, and partner engineering teams.
• Own service health, operational excellence, incident management, and continuous improvement.
• Drive innovation through AI-native development, automation, experimentation, and data-driven decision making.
• Influence organizational direction through technical leadership, stakeholder management, and strategic execution.
• Embody our culture and values.

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications

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

Job Requirements: Other & Additional

Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: 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/Additional Qualifications

• Master'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 Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 15+ 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 people management experience.
• Experience designing & implementing robust and scalable solutions for feature independently.
• Experience  owning the components and driving them end to end, all the way from gathering requirements, development, testing, deployment to ensuring high quality and availability post deployment.
• Ability to communicate with stakeholders 

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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.

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