Microsoft

Group Software Engineering Manager

Microsoft$165K — $296K *
Information Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline with 8+ years of technical engineering experience in coding languages like C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
  • Preferred: Bachelor's Degree with 12+ years or Master's Degree with 10+ years of technical engineering experience.
  • 2+ years designing, building, or operating large-scale software platforms or cloud infrastructure.
  • 6+ years of people management experience in software or network engineering.
  • Experience with architecture and roadmaps for distributed systems and AI-enabled capabilities.

Responsibilities

  • Lead, coach, and develop engineering teams to foster an inclusive culture and career growth opportunities.
  • Partner with cross-functional teams to develop cohesive strategies for network management and AI in engineering.
  • Provide technical leadership for scalable platform capabilities that enhance engineering workflows and collaboration among humans and AI.
  • Transform the engineering organization to adopt an AI-first model, enhancing the development and operations lifecycle.
  • Oversee engineering plans, balancing immediate delivery with long-term modernization needs across products and platforms.
  • Ensure software services meet critical reliability and security standards while driving continuous improvement in engineering practices.
  • Resolve complex service incidents by leveraging telemetry and AI insights to improve performance and engineering efficiency.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health insurance coverage.
  • Opportunities for professional development and career growth.
  • Supportive, inclusive culture focused on collaboration.
  • Access to advanced tools and technologies for innovative engineering.
  • Flexible work arrangements including remote options.
Full Job Description
Responsibilities

In this role, you will:
  • Lead, coach, and develop engineering managers, technical leads, and engineers, fostering an inclusive culture with clear accountability, effective collaboration, and opportunities for career growth.
  • Partner with product management, architecture, security, and network service teams to establish a cohesive strategy for network manageability, shared tooling, and AI-powered network engineering and operations.
  • Provide technical leadership for secure, scalable, and reusable platform capabilities that support Network Graph and Network IQ, enabling engineers, AI agents, and digital workers to reason across network data and operational context. Shape how these capabilities support Microsoft's Frontier Firm operating model by augmenting engineering workflows, automating repetitive operations, accelerating decision-making, and improving human and agent collaboration.
  • Lead the transformation of the engineering organization toward an AI-first engineering model, equipping engineers to use AI throughout the software development and operations lifecycle, redesign workflows around human-agent collaboration, and build the skills and practices needed to deliver greater impact with AI.
  • Oversee engineering plans, architecture and design documents, release plans, and execution across multiple products and platform capabilities, balancing near-term delivery with long-term modernization.
  • Ensure all software services meet reliability, security, compliance, privacy, accessibility, and engineering-fundamentals requirements. Establish measurable service-health objectives and drive disciplined practices across design, coding, testing, deployment, observability, incident management, resiliency, and continuous improvement.
  • Lead the resolution of complex service incidents and systemic engineering issues, using telemetry, Network IQ, and AI-assisted insights to improve reliability, security, performance, and engineering efficiency. Communicate technical direction, risks, trade-offs, and progress to engineering teams and senior stakeholders, building alignment and accountability across organizational boundaries.


Qualifications

Required Qualifications:
  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or a related technical discipline AND 8+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python,
    • OR equivalent experience.

Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter

Preferred Qualifications:
  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or a related technical field AND 12+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python; OR Master's Degree in Computer Science or a related technical field AND 10+ years of technical engineering experience; OR equivalent experience.
  • 2+ years of experience designing, building, or operating large-scale software platforms, cloud infrastructure, network systems, or distributed services.
  • 6+ years of people management experience leading software, network, infrastructure, or platform engineering teams, including experience developing engineering managers and senior technical leaders.
  • Experience defining architecture and roadmaps for large-scale distributed systems and services, enterprise networking, cloud infrastructure, network manageability, observability, automation, knowledge graph, or AI-enabled platform capabilities.
  • Experience transforming engineering practices through AI-assisted development and digital workers, operating highly available services, applying reliability, security, compliance, and engineering fundamentals, and influencing technical decisions across organizational boundaries.


Software Engineering M6 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $165,600 - $296,400 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $220,800 - $331,200 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

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Microsoft is an American multinational corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services. Microsoft’s devices and consumer (D&C) licensing segment licenses the Windows operating system and related software, Microsoft Office for consumers, and the Windows Phone operating system. The company’s computing and gaming hardware segment provides Xbox gaming and entertainment consoles and accessories, second-party and third-party video games, and Xbox Live subscriptions; surface devices and accessories; and Microsoft PC accessories. Its phone hardware segment offers Lumia smartphones and other non-Lumia phones. Its D&C segment provides Windows Store, Xbox Live transactions, and Windows phone store; search advertising; display advertising; Office 365 Home and Office 365 Personal; first-party video games; and other consumer products and services as well as operating retail stores. Microsoft’s commercial licensing segments license server products, including Windows Server, Microsoft SQL Server, Visual Studio, System Center, and related Client Access Licenses (CALs); Windows Embedded; Windows operating system; Microsoft Office for business, including Office, Exchange, SharePoint, Lync, and related CALs; Microsoft Dynamics business solutions; and Skype. Its commercial segment offers enterprise services, including premier support services and Microsoft consulting services; commercial cloud comprising Office 365 Commercial, other Microsoft Office online offerings, Dynamics CRM Online, and Microsoft Azure; and other commercial products and online services. The company markets and distributes its products through original equipment manufacturers, distributors, and resellers, as well as online.

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