Principal Software Engineering Manager-Sharepoint AI Team

Overview

Come join the OneDrive and SharePoint AI Platform team and help us deliver the next generation of AI-powered productivity experiences for hundreds of millions of users. With exabytes of customer content, OneDrive and SharePoint are core to collaboration across Microsoft 365.

We build systems and experiences that let people work with content in new ways using large language models and generative AI, including SharePoint's AI mode for contextual understanding, reasoning, and action at scale.

We are a fast-paced, collaborative team across engineering, PM, design, research, and applied science. We're seeking a Principal Engineering Manager to provide technical leadership in using modern AI tools to elevate customer experiences and accelerate software development

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

• Lead vision, strategy, and execution for AI-powered experiences across OneDrive and SharePoint.
• Drive integration of LLMs and generative AI into platform capabilities, including SharePoint's AI mode.
• Provide strong technical leadership across architecture, service design, and engineering practices.
• Collaborate across engineering, PM, design, and research to deliver high-quality, scalable features.
• Foster an inclusive, collaborative team culture with a focus on growth, customer empathy, and engineering excellence.
• Communicate clearly across organizational levels and influence teams through strong written and verbal communication.
• Leverage cloud expertise (Azure, AWS, Google Cloud Platform) and modern service patterns (REST, RPC, JSON, GraphQL).
• Establish best practices that improve reliability, scalability, and AI-driven development workflows.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

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

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 12+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 15+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of software engineering people-management experience.
• 7+ years of experience launching and shipping multiple product iterations to customers.
• 1+ years of experience with LLMs, orchestrators, embedding models, and vector databases.
• Experience building AI/ML or generative-AI-powered systems.
• Proven ability to mentor and develop high-performing engineering teams.
• Strong customer empathy and product-thinking mindset.
• Proven ability to deliver customer-focused products at scale.
• Excellent communication and cross-team influence.

Software Engineering M6 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $163,000 - $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.

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

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.