Principal Software Engineering Manager

$137,600 - $267,000/Yr

Microsoft - San Francisco, CA

Full-time - Senior

Remote - San Francisco, CA

Publishing Industries

About the position

As a Principal Software Engineering Manager, you will play a crucial role in enhancing our buy-side platform, enabling advertisers and curators to efficiently access inventory and manage ad campaigns. This position involves making significant technical, operational, and strategic contributions to our real-time platform, focusing on high-scale, high-availability, and low-latency systems. You will lead a globally distributed team, fostering a culture of innovation and performance while overseeing the career development of your direct reports.

Responsibilities

• Make technical, operational, planning, and strategic contributions to the real-time platform.
• Guide teams in identifying dependencies and developing design documents for products and services.
• Optimize, debug, refactor, and reuse code to enhance performance and maintainability.
• Drive project plans, release plans, and work items in coordination with stakeholders.
• Monitor system performance and act as an expert for Designated Responsible Individual (DRI).
• Lead product development and scaling to meet customer requirements and performance expectations.
• Mentor and develop engineers in best practices for world-class software development.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline.
• 6+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in languages such as C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
• 4+ years of people management experience.
• 4+ years of experience in C development on Unix environments.

Nice-to-haves

• Understanding of advertising systems.
• Experience in delivering mission-critical backend systems under tight deadlines.
• Experience with large scale and low latency systems.
• Track record of strong execution and collaboration with global stakeholders.

Benefits

• Flexible and partial remote work opportunities.
• Competitive salary range based on location and experience.