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Principal Software Engineer Manager- Windows Serving & Delivery

United States, Washington, Redmond💼 Full-time🗓 2026-06-16 → 2026-09-26

Core

Leading teams to design, build, and operate scalable software solutions that improve the reliability, performance, and customer experience of Windows.

Role type

Principal Software Engineering Manager (Windows Client/Server)

Builds

Scalable software solutions for Windows reliability, performance, and supportability

Domain

Operating Systems (Windows) / Distributed Systems

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

People leadership, technical direction, incident response, debugging, performance analysis, code review, system design, cross-functional collaboration, customer impact analysis, automation scripting, networking diagnostics

Preferred skills

Windows authentication concepts (Kerberos, LSASS), cloud-based authentication, C/C++/C# expertise

Technologies

C, C++, C#, Python, Windows, Cloud services

Responsibilities

Lead and coach software engineers, set technical direction and execution plans, reinforce engineering fundamentals and CI practices, provide technical guidance on complex diagnostics, represent the team in cross-organization discussions, use telemetry to prioritize investments

Seniority

Principal, hands-on IC with people management

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