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Principal Software Engineering Manager - Databases

India, Telangana, Hyderabad💼 Full-time🗓 2026-06-26 → 2026-09-26

Core

Define long-term strategy for engineering systems, reliability, security, and AI-driven automation while leading a team to build multi-year roadmaps for service health and platform standardization on Azure Data.

Role type

Principal Software Engineering Manager (Databases & Platform)

Builds

Highly available cloud services, distributed systems infrastructure, and AI-driven engineering automation tooling

Domain

Cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, database platforms, Azure ecosystem

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

distributed systems architecture, database engineering, cloud platform design, team leadership, engineering lifecycle management, AI/automation integration, observability strategy, security engineering, system reliability, open-source software development

Preferred skills

Azure Data platform experience, PostgreSQL expertise, open-source software (OSS) contribution

Technologies

Azure Data, PostgreSQL, AI/ML tools for engineering, observability platforms

Responsibilities

Define and evolve the Fundamentals charter across engineering systems, reliability, security, and AI-driven automation; Lead, coach, and grow a high-performing engineering team; Own and deliver end-to-end features across the full engineering lifecycle; Mentor engineers through design reviews and operational learnings; Incorporate customer requirements and live-site signals into engineering decisions; Drive an automation-first engineering approach leveraging AI across the lifecycle

Seniority

Principal, hands-on IC with strategic leadership

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