Principal Software Engineering Manager-Azure Data

Overview Microsoft is a company where passionate innovators come to collaborate, envision what can be and take their careers further. This is a world of more possibilities, more innovation, more openness, and the sky is the limit thinking in a cloud-enabled world. Microsoft’s Azure Data engineering team is leading the transformation of analytics in the world of data with products like databases, data integration, big data analytics, messaging & real-time analytics, and business intelligence. The products our portfolio include Microsoft Fabric, Azure SQL DB, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure PostgreSQL, Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Service Bus, Azure Event Grid, and Power BI. Our mission is to build the data platform for the age of AI, powering a new class of data-first applications and driving a data culture. ​ ​ Within Azure Data, the Microsoft Fabric platform team builds and maintains the operating system and provides customers a unified data stack to run an entire data estate. The platform provides a unified experience, unified governance, enables a unified business model and a unified architecture.  ​ ​ ​ The Production Engineering team is hiring an Engineering Manager in Bangalore to lead a team focused on agent engineering, incident management, and fix delivery in close partnership with product groups. This team operates at the intersection of platform reliability and agent‑driven automation, driving signal‑to‑fix workflows and improving production resilience at scale. As a peer to other platform leads, this Engineering Manager will own end‑to‑end execution across incident response, root cause remediation, and the development of agentic capabilities that accelerate detection and resolution. The role is unique in combining deep SRE ownership with forward‑looking investment in AI‑driven engineering systems, requiring strong cross‑team coordination, execution discipline, and the ability to operate effectively across distributed leadership and complex dependencies ​ ​ We do not just value differences or different perspectives. We seek them out and invite them in so we can tap into the collective power of everyone in the company. As a result, our customers are better served. Responsibilities Lead end-to-end incident management and fix delivery across the Fabric Platform, driving rapid mitigation, root cause resolution, and sustained reliability improvements. *Partner closely with product engineering teams to prioritize and execute high-impact fixes, ensuring clear ownership and measurable outcomes. *Build and scale agent-driven engineering capabilities to accelerate signal detection, diagnosis, and automated resolution (signal-to-fix). *Establish strong execution discipline through metrics, dashboards, and operational rhythms that improve visibility, prioritization, and accountability. *Develop and grow a high-performing team, fostering engineering excellence across SRE practices, cross-team collaboration, and production ownership. ​ Embody our culture and values Qualifications Required/Minimum Qualifications : • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND 10+ 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 of people management experience. Preferred/Additional Qualifications ​​*Experience working with multi-region, multi-tenant, large scale production systems lti-region, multi-tenant, large scale production systems *Experience with building multi layered autonomous agent systems​ ​​ Job Requirements: Other & Additional 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. Equal Opportunity Employer (EOP) Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form (Accessibility | Microsoft Careers). Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work. #azdat #azuredata ​​#fabricplatform #fabricplatprod​ 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.