Principal Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft

Position Principal Software Engineering Manager
Posted 23 Jan 2026
Expired 22 Feb 2026
Company Microsoft
Location Dublin | IE
Job Type Full Time

Job Description:

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Overview

Growth Ireland, part of Enterprise + Devices Growth, is a growing team of over 100 people in Dublin, Ireland, spanning Software Engineering, Program Management, Data Scientists, and Designers committed to delivering cross-Microsoft coherent services to drive Copilot adoption across all customers, enabling them to achieve more.     

The team is at the core of transforming how users buy and redeem Microsoft 365 and Copilot subscriptions and drive usage. The E+D Growth team spans multiple geographies and is a dynamic and exciting place to work with a breadth of products and services that are unrivalled, committed to delivering outstanding results in an environment that is fun, fast-paced, and collaborative.  

If you are passionate about having our users have the best Microsoft experience and you like working across consumers and businesses for PCs, tablets, and phones then maybe the OMEX team in Dublin has the right job for you?  

As the industry continues the transition to services and devices, we are at the heart of re-inventing how Microsoft Products are delivered and maintained for consumers and business. 

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
  • Lead a team of engineers, with responsibility of deep technical mentorship and career direction of team members.
  • Provide technical leadership for the design and implementation of the future architecture for proven highly scalable, resilient, durable, maintainable, performant services and user experiences. 
  • Lead and actively participate in the full software development life cycle:
  • Create design and architecture documents.
  • Review artifacts and code.
  • Ensure safe release of updated experiences, with special consideration for security, privacy, compliance, and accessibility.
  • Foster a data driven approach with focus on the customer.
  • Collaborate with multiple teams across Microsoft for joint delivery of customer experiences.
  • Collaborate with multiple functions to drive the definition of requirements, KPIs, priorities and planning of engineering deliverables.
  • Evolve development guidelines, practices, systems, and tools to meet a world where client and services development and delivery is moving faster than ever. 
Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
    • OR equivalent experience. 
  • Extensive years of industry experience designing, building, testing, shipping, and maintaining software and services.
  • Solid ability to attract, hire, and retain top talent.
  • Excellent leadership, collaboration, and communication skills.
  • Ability to operate at a high level in a fast paced, dynamic environment with competing priorities and ambiguity.
  • Ability to analyse, interpret, and communicate data to uncover opportunities for improvement.
  • Excellence in software engineering practices - system design, coding, testing, and monitoring, and analytical problem-solving skills.
  • Expertise in building and running proven highly available, highly scalable, reliable, concurrent, distributed systems.
  • Expertise in safe release, deployment and maintenance of cloud services using experimentation and telemetry.
  • Experience with one or more of the following - C#, ASP.NET, JavaScript, Service Fabric, Web Services, APIs.
  • Deep understanding of web related protocols and standards, such as HTTP, SSL, REST and JSON.
  • Passion for making software engineering more efficient by designing and developing solutions at scale and make data driven decisions.
  • Deep commitment to inclusiveness and diversity.

Other Requirements:Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

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This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.


Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.

Job Info:

  • Company: Microsoft
  • Position: Principal Software Engineering Manager
  • Work Location: Dublin
  • Country: IE

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