# Principal Software Engineering Manager

OverviewMicrosoft brings together passionate innovators to collaborate, imagine what is possible, and build solutions in a cloud- and AI-enabled world. The Global Skilling Product Team (GSPT) develops innovative products and experiences that help customers, partners, sellers, and future generations skill, upskill, and reskill. Our goal is to reach more than 100 million learners through accessible, high-quality learning experiences across Microsoft Learn and other digital platforms. As a Principal Software Engineering Manager, you will lead a team of engineers and serve as a technical authority for the design, development, and delivery of sophisticated, scalable learning and skilling solutions. You will drive skilling products such as AI Skills Navigator, using AI to improve how skilling recommendations and personalized learning reach global enterprise learners, and making learning available to Microsoft’s customers and partners across our products and platforms. Working across product, operations, partner, and engineering teams, you will translate business needs, workflow constraints, and success criteria into secure, reliable solutions with measurable outcomes, guiding them from d

- **Id**: 4231546
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/microsoft-principal-software-engineering-manager-22>
- **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**: 12
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-11T16:39:12Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-13
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-13T09:59:58Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 1
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 9319
- **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**: 521
- **Ghost share**: 0.01
- **Stale share**: 0.568
- **Repost share**: 0.05
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 30
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Salary

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

## Technologies

- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **Azure** — Optional: no
- **C#** — Optional: no
- **C++** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Copilot** — Optional: no
- **Incident Management** — Optional: no
- **JavaScript** — Optional: no
- **Least Privilege** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Agentic Workflows** — Optional: yes
- **Azure AKS** — Optional: yes
- **Azure Cosmos DB** — Optional: yes
- **Azure Data Factory** — Optional: yes
- **Azure DevOps** — Optional: yes
- **Azure SQL Database** — Optional: yes
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: yes
- **LLM** — Optional: yes
- **RAG** — Optional: yes
- **React.js** — Optional: yes
- **Rest API** — Optional: yes
- **TypeScript** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 1

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 12
- **Management years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: yes

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-13T09:59:58Z

## 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**: 1
- **Expected fill days**: 30
- **Reasons**: conf:0, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-13T10:55:18Z

## Pay

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

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