Principal Software Engineering Manager- SxG

Principal Software Engineering Manager- SxG

Dublin, Ireland

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Date posted

Sep 25, 2025

Job number

Work site

3 days / week in-office

Travel

0-25 %

Role type

People Manager

Profession

Software Engineering

Software Engineering

Employment type

Full-Time

Overview

Microsoft is a company where passionate innovators come to collaborate, envision what can be and take their careers to levels they cannot achieve anywhere else. This is a world of more possibilities, more innovation, more openness in a cloud-enabled world.

The Business & Industry Copilots group is a rapidly growing organization that is responsible for the Microsoft Dynamics 365 suite of products, Power Apps, Power Automate, Dataverse, AI Builder, Microsoft Industry Solution and more. Microsoft is considered one of the leaders in Software as a Service in the world of business applications and this organization is at the heart of how business applications are designed and delivered.

This is an exciting time to join our group Customer Experience - CXP and work on something highly strategic to Microsoft. The goal of the Customer Experience - CXP Engineering is to build the next generation of our applications running on Dynamics 365, AI, Copilot, and several other Microsoft cloud services to deliver high value, complete, and Copilot-enabled application scenarios across all devices and form factors.

We innovate quickly and collaborate closely with our partners and customers in an agile, high-energy

environment. Leveraging the scalability and value from Azure & Power Platform, we ensure our solutions are robust and efficient. If the opportunity to collaborate with a diverse engineering team, on enabling end-to-end business scenarios using cutting-edge technologies and to solve challenging problems for large scale 24x7 business SaaS applications excite you, please come and talk to us!

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.

Qualifications

Required / Minimum Qualifications

Preferred /Additional Qualifications

• Passion for improving software quality and engineering excellence. • Experience in developing, debugging, and supporting code in object-oriented languages and database query languages. • Background on services and cloud computing a plus. • Prior experience building business-centric web applications and latest web development technologies

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.

Responsibilities

Responsibilities:

• Designing and developing highly usable and scalable new application capabilities and enhancing existing capabilities to meet the needs of our customers.
• Managers deliver success through empowerment and accountability by modeling, coaching, and caring. Model: Live our culture. Embody our values. Practice our leadership principles. Coach: Define team objectives and outcomes. Enable success across boundaries.
• Reviews debugging tools, tests, logs, telemetry, and other methods, and acts as an expert for others to proactively verify assumptions while developing code before issues occur across products in production using Common Data Services (CDS ) , Dynamics 365 and Power Platform and/or a micro-services architecture
• Guides team within and across teams on producing extensible, maintainable, well-tested, secure, and performant code that adheres to design specifications. Leads efforts to continuously improve code performance, testability, maintainability, effectiveness, and cost, while learning about and accounting for relevant trade-offs.
• Guides teams on and leads identifying dependencies and incorporating them into the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.
• Guides team on leading the identification of requirements for, and the comprehensive application of automation within production and deployment across products, targeting zero-touch deployment when possible.
• Guides partnership with appropriate internal (e.g., product manager, privacy/security subject matter expert, technical lead) and external ( e.g. customer escalation team, public forums) stakeholders and leverages expertise to determine and confirm customer/user requirements and their feasibility within and across teams.

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

Industry leading healthcare

Educational resources

Discounts on products and services

Savings and investments

Maternity and paternity leave

Generous time away

Giving programs

Opportunities to network and connect

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 and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations .