Viva Glint is a premier employee engagement platform, working with over 1,000 leading companies in more than 150 countries to improve the health of organizations through real-time employee feedback. Glint blends AI technology and people science to power predictive insights that help human resources, leaders, and managers quickly make sense of engagement data, connect insight with outcomes, and take meaningful action. Companies that excel at understanding the needs of their people, and enable their managers to respond in meaningful ways, see 2.5 times higher profit, 3 times lower attrition, and 3 times lower burnout.

The Glint product joined Microsoft as part of the Employee Experience (EXP) organization which includes Viva Engage, Viva Learning, Viva Insights and more. Team members engage directly with customers, iterate rapidly, and focus on solving the needs of employees around the world. Our culture is inclusive, casual, and high energy. Our team celebrates diverse backgrounds, and values passion for serving our customers. Our team has an efficient sense of accountability and provides its members with opportunities for learning and career growth.

As a Principal Engineering Manager, you will lead a team of engineers in solving complex problems, driving adoption of good engineering practices and configuration distribution standards, and collaborating across groups to deliver successful outcomes. This role offers tremendous opportunities for learning, growth, and leadership 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

• Influence and align product vision by collaborating with customers, partners, product management and engineering teams.

• Managing a team of high-caliber Software Engineers, ensuring project and development excellence and technical leadership.

• Deliver high quality results with full ownership and take the platform to the next level.

• Own career development of team through active coaching.

• Create a strong team culture of engineering excellence, customer passion, collaboration, diversity and inclusion. And of course, having fun too!

• Develop and execute project plans, ensuring timely delivery and alignment with organizational objectives.

• Encourage a culture of continuous improvement within the team, fostering innovation and efficiency.

• Hire and develop the best!

Qualifications

Required Qualifications :

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline 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.

• 6+ years of experience coding using Java.

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 the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Preferred Qualifications :

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

• OR related technical field AND 10+ years 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 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.

• 4+ years people management experience.

• Solid design, coding, debugging, teamwork, partnership, and communication skills.

• Experience in leading large dev teams to achieve complex goals on time and on budget.

• Proven ability to find a shippable solution given conflicting and ambiguous requirements.

• Excellent technical skills in driving design, architecture with cross product and services dependencies.

• Ability to drive innovation with customer obsession.

• Experience with cross group design and coordination is an advantage.

• You must be self-driven, curious to learn, proactive, and result oriented.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, 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 (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html) .