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Principal Group Software Engineering Manager

United States, Washington, Redmond💼 Full-time🗓 2026-07-06 → 2026-09-25

Core

Design and scale capacity intake, planning, and deployment for AI/ML workloads (Copilot) to reduce time-to-production and meet SLAs via automation and a unified control plane.

Role type

Principal Group Software Engineering Manager (Platform/Infrastructure)

Builds

Unified control plane connecting intake, planning, deployment, and fleet operations for global optimization of cost, latency, and compliance.

Domain

Cloud Infrastructure / AI/ML Platform Engineering

Deliverable

production ML models | infrastructure

Required skills

Large-scale distributed systems design, control plane/orchestration platform ownership, capacity planning, fleet management, supply/demand optimization, executive communication, organizational strategy, hiring and coaching, systems thinking, multi-org program leadership.

Preferred skills

Experience with Azure, M365, AI workloads, inference/training cost models (COGS), building automation from 0→1.

Technologies

C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Python, Azure, M365

Responsibilities

Set strategy and roadmap for Copilot capacity management; lead high-performing org of managers and senior engineers; establish metrics and SLAs for intake latency and fleet utilization; represent capacity in executive reviews; coach and grow managers and senior ICs; drive execution across existing teams.

Seniority

Principal, strategy & mentorship

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