Principal Software Engineering Manager

About the role

Engineering leaders on the Microsoft Edge Web Platform team build the foundational technologies that shape how hundreds of millions of people experience the web and AI-powered computing. Edge operates at massive scale and extends beyond a traditional browser as a gateway to Microsoft's products and AI ecosystem. This role offers the opportunity to shape a widely used web platform by advancing its performance, capabilities, and user experience. As a Principal Software Engineering Manager on the Edge Web Platform team, you will lead a team of engineers who own core primitives of the web platform, spanning areas such as networking and navigation, media and storage, rendering and layout, web APIs and JavaScript engine, developer and app platform.

Responsibilities

• Build, lead, and grow a diverse, inclusive, and high-performing engineering team; hire, coach, and develop engineers and support their long-term career growth.
• Set technical strategy and priorities for one or more web platform areas, and drive execution across multiple projects and release cycles.
• Foster a culture of engineering excellence, accountability, and inclusion, and model a growth mindset across the team.
• Manage team health, delivery, and operational quality, and represent your team's work to senior leadership and partner organizations.
• Drive high-quality API and architecture design across Microsoft and the broader web ecosystem, including through standards forums, to improve interoperability.
• Guide your team's contributions to Chromium in areas that can be shared across Chromium-based browsers.
• Deliver web platform innovations across key browser engine areas, grounded in customer and developer needs, with a focus on correctness, performance, compatibility, and security at web scale.
• Partner with product, design, standards bodies, community groups, and partner teams to align the roadmap and land features end to end.
• Embody Microsoft's culture and values.

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.
• 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.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 12+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.

Pay

• Typical base pay range across the U.S.: USD $142,800 - $274,800 per year.
• San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area base pay range: USD $188,000 - $304,200 per year.