New 
Principal Engineer Manager
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Texas, Irving | |
| 7000 State Highway 161 (Show on map) | |
 Oct 18, 2025 | |
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OverviewThe Azure Dedicated Team is responsible for attaching large scale and non-native workloads into our Azure Core services. These services can range from enterprise solutions such as Storage Filers, bleeding Edge Bare Metal Databases all the way to large scale AI training supercomputers. As a Software Engineering Manager in this team, we are looking for a manager with a blend of technical depth and a desire to lead a team through the current wave of AI innovation. In particular this role could be a great fit for those with prior server infrastructure lifecycle management at scale. This opportunity will allow you to gain exposure to the challenges of supercomputer infrastructure for AI training and be at the forefront of serving the biggest household names in AI each day. This role will allow you to have the autonomy to deliver innovative distributed system control planes whilst leading a skilled team of Software Engineers. 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.
ResponsibilitiesLeads product development and scaling to customer requirements and applies best practices for meeting scaling needs and performance expectations and holds accountability for products that do not meet expectations.Guides partnership with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project manager, technical lead and customer) to determine user requirements within and across teams.Guides teams and leads identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.Optimizes, debugs, refactors, and reuses code to improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI).Guides team to drive multiple group's project plans, release plans, and work items in coordination with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers).Guides team and acts as an expert for Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and monitors other engineers across product lines, working on call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions. | |