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Principal Software Engineering Manager

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Software Engineering
Posted on Aug 25, 2025

Principal Software Engineering Manager

Bangalore, Karnataka, India

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Date posted
Aug 25, 2025
Job number
1860273
Work site
Up to 50% work from home
Travel
0-25 %
Role type
People Manager
Profession
Software Engineering
Discipline
Software Engineering
Employment type
Full-Time

Overview

Microsoft Dynamics 365 is a rapidly growing business at Microsoft and is considered one of the leaders in Software as a Service in the world of business applications. Dynamics 365 provides the best showcase for innovations across Microsoft such as Machine Learning, Predictive Analytics and end-to-end Digital Transformation for businesses.

Are you looking to build Software as a Service (SaaS) applications to enable our business customers to undertake their journeys of digital transformation?

As part of the Dynamics 365 engineering organization, our team delivers business applications for Connected Customer Care – for contact centers. And as a Software Engineering Manager, you will work with senior business and technology leaders as well as internal business users and Partners to conceive, design and implement Dynamics 365 applications and pick the best technical architecture to solve their business needs. We are looking for a passionate and motivated senior leader who can inspire the team and drive design and development of Business applications & Industry cloud vertical applications and solutions leveraging the power of Power Platform, Microsoft 365, Office 365, and Azure. We innovate quickly and collaborate closely with our partners and customers in a very agile, high-energy environment. If this opportunity excites you, please come and talk to us!

We want you for your passion for technology, your curiosity and willingness to learn, your ability to communicate well in a team environment, your desire to make our team better with your contributions and your ability to deliver.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field and 12+ years of professional backend software development (C#/C++/Java, SQL, JavaScript/React or Python) building highly available distributed systems.
  • Minimum 3 Years of people management experience in a product development environment
  • Knowledge of end-to-end Software development lifecycle.
  • Strong focus on customer success, zero-trust security and compliance.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Great communication skills to collaborate across groups and work effectively within the team.
  • A passion for improving engineering practices and producing high quality software.
  • Experience with building infrastructure using Microsoft Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud.
  • Experience working with LLMs (Large Language Models) and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) architectures.

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Responsibilities

  • Be a great manager - Mentor, and leader of the team and broader organization. You will manage a team of between 8 and 12 developers that are building the next generation business applications.
  • Be customer obsessed - Understanding and anticipating the needs of our customers .
  • Great product sense - Deep understanding of the broader product vision and ability to plan + design various features in stages to reach the end goal in an evolutionary way is critical.
  • Be a great engineer - You will be accountable to the design, implementation, schedule, quality, servicing and delivery, of your team and services. Doing this in an efficient way is a must.
  • Earn respect - This is a technical position, and the ideal candidate should be capable of working in the code, supporting the service, and understanding at a detailed level how the software works.
  • Be the software architect - We will look to you having an informed opinion about what and how the software should evolve and can land your plan in the division.

In short, we are looking for some great engineers to come and do what great engineers truly love to do: Solve important problems by building great software.


Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.
Industry leading healthcare
Educational resources
Discounts on products and services
Savings and investments
Maternity and paternity leave
Generous time away
Giving programs
Opportunities to network and connect

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 and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.