Microsoft Principal Engineering Manager 

Ireland, Dublin 

860659208

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline
• Technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • OR equivalent experience.
• Experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development.
• People management experience.
• Experience in managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.
• Experience with cloud technologies, including Infrastructure as a Service, Application as a Service, and Platform as a Service.
• Experience in scalable service design and implementation.
• Experience delivering complicated technical solutions involving cross-group teamwork.
• Experience with all aspects of the back end, including web services, relational databases, document databases and data access technologies.
• Experience working with Large Language models is a bonus.

• Deliver success through empowerment and accountability by modelling, coaching, and caring.
• Guide and coach teams to design architecture and integrated solutions. Reviews design documents and architecture proposals.
• Work with architects and technical partners to develop architecture requirements.
• Guide teams to deliver services that facilitates the translation the needs of the organization and other teams into program goals and prioritized deliverables.
• Coach teams to define success criteria and performance metrics (e.g., Objectives and Key Results [OKRs], Key Performance Indicators [KPIs] such as quality and performance) of the feature(s)/feature areas.
• Provide technical leadership for engineers across multiple teams.
• Design and develop large scale distributed services and solutions.
• Develop “best-in-class” engineering for our services by ensuring that the services and the components are well-defined, modularized, secure, reliable, testable, diagnosable, actively monitored, and reusable.
• Work closely with our internal/external partners to support the team’s mission.
• Balance pragmatism with vision; deliver continuous improvements to the team’s process and codebase.
• Build automation to prevent and/or remediate service problems from becoming production incidents.
• Gain a working understanding of Microsoft businesses and collaborate with mentors and leaders to contribute to cohesive, end-to-end experiences for our users.
• Lead teams to form hypotheses to technical needs, perform experiments, and iterate to drive improvement in specific performance metrics that have measurable impact.