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# Principal Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft

Department: Software Engineering

**Setup**
: Hybrid

**Location**
: Hyderabad, Telangana

**Type**
: Full-time

**Level**
: staff+

**Posted**
: Aug 25, 2026

## Description

Microsoft is hiring a Principal Software Engineering Manager to lead a team responsible for Windows device fundamentals, including reliability, compatibility, performance, battery life, and sustainability. The role defines technical strategy and roadmaps, leads cross-stack investigations and complex system optimizations, manages engineering quality and risk, and recruits, coaches, and retains engineers while partnering with Windows, OEM, silicon, and hardware teams. The position requires a bachelor's degree in computer science or a related technical field, 12+ years of technical engineering experience, and 3+ years of people-management experience, along with deep Windows, systems, telemetry, and large-scale data expertise.

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