Principal Software Engineering Manager

operate AI agents with agility and confidence. Guides collaboration with stakeholders to confirm user requirements and leverages feedback channels for design improvements. Guides teams in creating test strategies, incorporating security testing, and leveraging AI tools for test automation. Guides development process, ensuring extensible, maintainable, and secure code using best practices. Guides experimentation, deployment, live site maintenance, and incident response, ensuring safe and efficient operations. Guides development tool selection and continuous integration in production. Ensures compliance with security and regulatory standards, mentors on learning and development, and advocates for best practices and security-informed engineering. Lead the team that architects and evolves the core runtime infrastructure to support systems for agentic memory and conversation storage and the agent runtime platform components for M365 Copilot Chat. Drive AI-native engineering: Champion responsible use of AI across the SDLC, improve team productivity with AI tools, and ensure accountability for AI-generated artifacts. Raise engineering quality and reliability: Lead code reviews, debugging, incident retrospectives, telemetry practices, and continuous improvements in code quality, testability, security, and maintainability. Own architecture and cross-team design: Guide complex system design, evaluate technology choices, manage dependencies, and ensure solutions meet scalability, reliability, performance, cost, and compliance requirements. Lead delivery, live-site health, and people growth: Drive project execution, safe deployments, observability, incident response, customer-focused decision making, and team success through coaching, empowerment, and accountability. 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 These requirements include but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: 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 Bachelor'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 equivalent experience. 4+ years people management experience.