Azure is the fastest-growing business in Microsoft’s history and the foundation of Microsoft’s commercial cloud services. Within Azure Core, we are advancing Foundational Observability, elevating existing standards and introducing innovations that set a new benchmark for reliability and resilience.

This Principal Software Engineering Manager role is about delivering step-change improvements in telemetry, detection, and recovery across core infrastructure and foundational services. You will lead efforts that enable rapid, localized issue detection and resilient recovery at global scale, ensuring Azure Core meets the highest standards of performance and operational excellence.
You will collaborate across Azure and Microsoft to integrate with existing systems while introducing modern approaches that maximize impact and efficiency. This role involves leveraging and contributing to open-source frameworks and communities. This is a rare opportunity to build a new team, shape platform-wide observability strategy, and deliver solutions that matter at hyperscale.

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.