Overview
As a Principal Software Engineer Manager in Windows Ecosystem & Commercial Engagements (WECE), you will hire and direct a talented team of engineers on a mission to build features into Windows on behalf of our customers & partners. This opportunity will allow you to deliver value directly to hundreds of millions of users. You will be able to demonstrate that your team is embracing the latest AI-assisted engineering while delivering practical features that improve the value of Windows and our competitive position.
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
- Guides partnership with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., security, privacy, peer teams) to determine 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 cross-group collaboration efforts, engineering release plans, and work items in coordination with appropriate stakeholders.
- Own delivery of OS features that integrate well into our current & future product plans.
- Deliver code changes with high quality that pass peer review, security scrutiny and are regression free.

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 Master's Degree in Computer Science or re

📌 Principal Software Engineering Manager (Hyderabad)
🏢 Microsoft
📍 Hyderabad