New job, posted less than a week ago!
Job Details
Posted date: Mar 09, 2026
There have been 193 jobs posted with the title of Principal Software Engineering Manager all time at Microsoft.There have been 193 Principal Software Engineering Manager jobs posted in the last month.
Category: Software Engineering
Location: Redmond, WA
Estimated salary: $222,050
Range: $139,900 - $304,200
Employment type: Full-Time
Work location type: 3 days / week in-office
Role: People Manager
Description
OverviewOur mission is to empower and protect customers by providing cutting-edge, real-time defense against cyber threats, including malware, ransomware, phishing, and tech scams, across 1B+ supported devices and environments. We are dedicated to securing files, networks, and URL resources, ensuring seamless and safe experiences across the spectrum of mobile devices, desktops, and browsers. Driven by insights from billions of data points from global telemetry calls and advanced machine learning models, we proactively identify and neutralize malicious campaigns before they target our users.
Responsibilities
We are on a mission to enable endpoint protection to every person and organization on the planet. We are looking for an Principal Software Engineering Manager to help us nurture a world class engineering team and design and deliver services and tools to bring cutting-edge cyber security solutions to our enterprise customers to manage and protect devices against cyber threats. You will build bar-raising engineering solutions to accelerate modernization of hyper-cloud scale services.
Provide hands-on technical leadership: architecture, design, code reviews, development, quality assurance. Collaborate across partner teams in Microsoft. Lead and grow a team of high performing engineers. Mentor, coach, hire, retain and grow top talent. Foster a healthy and inclusive team environment. Embody Microsoft Culture and Values Taking part in code reviews, both as a reviewer and a reviewee, to ensure the quality of the software and promote best practices within the team. Ship high-quality, well-tested, secure, and maintainable code. Enjoy working in a fast-paced, design-driven, product development cycle.
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, Rust, or Python OR equivalent experience. Preferred Qualifications:
2+ years people management experience of a software team 6+ years working experience on large scale system architecture, design, development, testing and release of full product lifecycle.
Software Engineering M5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $139,900 - $274,800 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 $188,000 - $304,200 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.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. 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 with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.