# Principal Software Engineering Manager

OverviewMicrosoft Commercial Marketplace seeks a Principal Software Engineering Manager to lead the Marketplace Payload Processing Platform, which orchestrates end-to-end workflows to receive, validate, process, certify and provision publisher-submitted content across public and sovereign clouds. Shape the future of Marketplace ingestion by defining the vision, architecture and roadmap for a scalable, extensible and secure platform. You will lead engineering leads and engineers to bring that vision to life, with end-to-end ownership of reliability, latency, security and compliance-and the opportunity to elevate operational excellence across Marketplace engineering. Extend your impact across Microsoft by partnering with engineering, product and program leaders in Azure, Commerce, Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365, Power BI, Windows and other product units to deliver platform capabilities and integrations. This role combines deep technical ownership with cross-organizational influence and the opportunity to grow strong, inclusive teams that thrive through autonomy and operational excellence. Help lead the shift from AI-augmented to AI-native engineering. You will make AI a core part of how

- **Id**: 4001403
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/microsoft-principal-software-engineering-manager-21>
- **Role**: Leadership
- **Role family**: Leadership
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Redmond, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 6
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-06T22:10:25Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-09
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-10T03:34:14Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 3
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5515
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Cloud Platforms (IaaS & PaaS), Office & Productivity Software, Gaming Consoles, Developer Tools

## Company

- **Id**: 18
- **Name**: Microsoft
- **Domain**: microsoft.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/microsoft>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Eightfold

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 84
- **Open postings**: 438
- **Ghost share**: 0.007
- **Stale share**: 0.594
- **Repost share**: 0.039
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 29
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 142800
- **Max**: 274800
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 274800

## Technologies

- **Azure** — Optional: no
- **C#** — Optional: no
- **C++** — Optional: no
- **JavaScript** — Optional: no
- **Power BI** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Windows** — Optional: no
- **Incident Management** — Optional: yes
- **SLI/SLO/SLA** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 3

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 6
- **Management years min**: 4
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-10T03:34:14Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 6,957 · green card filings: 2,767; Filings 12m: 6957

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 3
- **Expected fill days**: 29
- **Reasons**: conf:2, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T05:49:40Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 274800
- **Is top pay**: yes

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