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Principal Software Engineering Manager - Windows Inbox team

United States, Washington, Redmond💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-24 → 2026-09-25

Core

Lead, coach, and develop a software engineering team to build differentiated Windows experiences, balancing new product work, platform modernization, and technical debt.

Role type

Principal Software Engineering Manager (Windows Inbox team)

Builds

Native desktop and mobile Windows applications

Domain

Consumer software / Windows platform

Deliverable

product features

Required skills

Team leadership and coaching, product roadmap ownership, architecture and design partnership, telemetry and analytics utilization, cross-functional collaboration, release management, trade-off decision making

Preferred skills

Windows application development, C++, C#, WinUI, XAML, Win32, Windows App SDK, UWP, .NET

Responsibilities

Set clear expectations and ownership for the team, partner with product management and design to shape priorities, own execution from planning through release, establish processes for managing commitments and risks, communicate product health and outcomes to senior leaders, balance engineering capacity across initiatives

Seniority

Principal, hands-on leadership & strategy

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