Principal Software Engineering Manager-azure Data

Microsoft Microsoft · Big Tech · Bengaluru, KA, IN · Software Engineering

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. The role is unique in combining deep SRE ownership with forward-looking investment in AI-driven engineering systems.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead end-to-end incident management and fix delivery across the Fabric Platform, driving rapid mitigation, root cause resolution, and sustained reliability improvements.
  2. Partner closely with product engineering teams to prioritize and execute high-impact fixes, ensuring clear ownership and measurable outcomes.
  3. Build and scale agent-driven engineering capabilities to accelerate signal detection, diagnosis, and automated resolution (signal-to-fix).
  4. Establish strong execution discipline through metrics, dashboards, and operational rhythms that improve visibility, prioritization, and accountability.
  5. Develop and grow a high-performing team, fostering engineering excellence across SRE practices, cross-team collaboration, and production ownership.

Skills

Required

  • 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
  • 4+ Years of people management experience

Nice to have

  • Experience working with multi-region, multi-tenant, large scale production systems
  • Experience with building multi layered autonomous agent systems

What the JD emphasized

  • agent engineering
  • agent-driven engineering capabilities
  • automated resolution
  • agentic capabilities

Other signals

  • agent engineering
  • incident management
  • fix delivery
  • agentic capabilities
  • automated resolution