Principal Engineering Manager, Copilot agent platform

About the role

This is a senior engineering leadership opportunity focused on shaping the future of AI-powered software development. You will lead a team building innovative agentic experiences on a secure, scalable cloud platform used by developers and organizations worldwide. The role combines strategic technical leadership, large-scale distributed systems, generative AI applications, and engineering management. You will translate product strategy into a clear technical roadmap while ensuring services are reliable, secure, performant, and designed for global scale. You will work closely with Product Management, Design, Research, Security, and engineering leaders to navigate ambiguity and deliver complex initiatives. A major focus will be building a high-trust, high-performing engineering culture while mentoring staff and principal-level engineers. This remote U.S. role offers the opportunity to influence how AI agents transform the software development lifecycle and enable developers to delegate increasingly complex work to intelligent systems.

Responsibilities

• Set and execute the technical roadmap for agentic experiences, aligning engineering priorities with product strategy and organizational objectives.
• Partner with organizational leaders to shape the AI product portfolio, identify opportunities for innovation, and lead initiatives designed for global scale.
• Lead and develop a team of senior engineers, establishing clear direction while fostering ownership, inclusion, collaboration, experimentation, and engineering excellence.
• Recruit, coach, mentor, and develop engineering talent, manage performance, and ensure the team maintains relevant technical expertise and industry knowledge.
• Translate product requirements and customer feedback into technical strategies, architectures, and delivery plans in partnership with product managers and technical leads.
• Lead the development and operation of large-scale services and agentic products with strong standards for security, reliability, scalability, and quality.
• Own incident response and reliability practices, ensuring production services meet defined SLOs and that postmortems lead to systemic improvements.
• Oversee capacity planning and operational readiness to maintain