Principal Software Engineering Manager - UI Platform

Would you like to lead the next wave of innovation for Windows and build breakthrough experiences for collaboration and productivity to delight all Windows users across all devices?

We are the Windows India team and looking for someone like you to lead one or more of such efforts. Our mission is to help empower everyone as our CEO Satya said: “Our mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more”. The team would be building breakthrough solutions for Windows customers with the goal of driving undeniable end-user pull. Our mission is to make sure customers won’t just engage with what we build – they’ll love it and tell others because we’ve solved their toughest problems in surprising and delightful ways.

We are building the UI platform that developers use to build the most engaging experiences for Windows. We are looking for a proven Engineering Leader to lead a team to take the platform forward in their evolution. You will get to lead a team and partner with Windows teams across the globe to build, use and deploy various cutting-edge technologies in this space. It is a unique opportunity to work on both Microsoft technologies and one of the largest customer bases in the world! You will also get an opportunity to collaborate across various teams within Windows Group and across product groups within the company and work with some of the best minds in the world!

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.

• Influence and align the product vision by collaborating with customers, partners, product management, and engineering teams.
• Managing a team of high-caliber Software Engineers, ensuring project and development excellence and technical leadership.
• Deliver high quality results with full ownership and take the product to next level.
• Own career development of team through active coaching.
• Create a solid team culture of engineering excellence, customer passion, collaboration, diversity and inclusion. And of course, having fun too!
• Lead, motivate and drive the team to embrace the best of frontier and Agentic coding practices.
• Hire and develop the best.

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.
• 6 or more years of total experience designing, building and shipping software at scale and at least 4 years of team leadership and people management.
• Significant interest and experience with AI-powered, agentic coding tools and platforms.
• Solid design, coding, debugging, teamwork, partnership and communication skills.
• Experience in leading large dev teams to achieve complex goals on time and on budget.
• Proven ability to find a shippable solution given conflicting and ambiguous requirements.
• Excellent Technical skills in Driving Design, Architecture with cross product and services dependencies.
• Ability to Drive Innovation with customer obsession.
• Experience with cross group design and coordination is an advantage.
• You must be self-driven, curious to learn, proactive, and result oriented.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Windows development tools (including Visual Studio) and developer platform (WinUI, WPF, WinForms, ReactNative for Windows, MAUI, Blazor, Electron) and familiarity with XAML.
• 12 + Years of experience in C++/C#/Win32 application and systems programming.
• Experience working with AI/ML models, CoPilot & related tools would be a bonus.
• Experience working in open source, GitHub specifically, managing large collaborative open-source projects, and communicating with customers directly on GitHub.

The more diverse our team, the more inclusive our end result. To that end, we encourage applicants from any background and with any perspective. 

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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.