Principal Software Engineering Manager

Microsoft 365 applications are pivotal to Microsoft’s mission of empowering every individual and organization on the planet to achieve more. With a user base in the hundreds of millions, no other suite of products has a comparable reach or impact on personal and organizational productivity. The significance of M365 to Microsoft’s business cannot be overstated, as it is a primary driver of consistent revenue and income growth. 

 

Our Dublin-based Release and Delivery Experience (RDX) team is dedicated to equipping decision-makers with actionable insights, effective controls, and predictable releases to enhance end-user productivity in a seamless and efficient manner. A crucial aspect of our mission is the dependable delivery of high-quality M365 software to all our customers.

 

We manage the distribution of all Office products across various platforms—Windows, Mac, iOS, and Android—through a single, streamlined pipeline. This pipeline facilitates rapid feedback, exposure control, efficient audience utilization, and a hypothesis-driven engineering approach. It also includes the M365 Copilot client components, which are foundational to the future revenue growth of the company. In alignment with the One Microsoft ethos, we aim to extend the capabilities of this system across the entire company. 

 

We are a dynamic, collaborative team committed to elevating customer satisfaction. We tackle intriguing challenges, pursue growth and learning, and enjoy the journey.  

 

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Responsibilities

• Leads, coaches, and builds a diverse, inclusive, high-performing team where all team members can do their best work.  
• Fosters collaboration with key stakeholders, such as project managers and technical leads, to accurately gather user requirements and drive team alignment. 
• Leads the charge in identifying dependencies and orchestrating the development of comprehensive design documents for products, applications, services, or platforms. 
• Champions code excellence, optimizing, debugging, refactoring, and reusing code to boost performance and maintainability, ensuring maximum effectiveness and return on investment (ROI). 
• Strategically guides the team in managing multiple group’s project plans, release plans, and work items, ensuring seamless coordination with relevant stakeholders, including project managers. 
• Serves as a technical beacon, acting as an expert for Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) roles and vigilantly monitoring engineers across product lines, ensuring system/product/service integrity through on-call duties. 
• Leads by example in product development, meticulously scaling to customer requirements, applying industry best practices for scalability and performance, and taking full accountability for any products that fall short of excellence. 

Qualifications

Required Qualifications: 

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python 
  • OR equivalent experience. 
• People management experience leading high performing engineering teams. 
• You must be legally authorized to work in Ireland to be eligible for this role. 

 

Other Requirements:
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required