Overview
Microsoft 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 your team builds, ships and operates services—accelerating delivery, reducing operational cost and sharing successful practices to amplify your impact across the organization.
Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees, we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day, we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.
Responsibilities
- Define technical strategy and lead the delivery of scalable, extensible platforms.
- Lead, coach and grow inclusive, self-sufficient engineering teams and develop future leaders.
- Own service reliability, performance, security and compliance; champion operational excellence.
- Partner across teams to align priorities, manage dependencies and resources, and deliver shared outcomes.
- Advance AI-native engineering and automation to improve delivery, quality and operational efficiency.
- Communicate strategy, progress, metrics and risks clearly to senior leaders and stakeholders.
Qualifications
Required/Minimum Qualifications
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.
Other Requirements
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: Microsoft Cloud Background Check. This position will be required to pass t
