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Principal Group Engineering Manager

Hyderabad,TS,IN Full-time On-site

About the role

GitHub Infrastructure Team at Microsoft builds and operates critical CI/CD and platform services for developers worldwide. The Principal Group Engineering Manager leads multiple engineering teams, sets technical direction, drives execution, and ensures reliable, secure, and high‑performance systems while mentoring engineers and collaborating across organizations. Hyderabad, TS, India, on-site, relocation available.

What you’ll do

  • Set technical direction and drive execution across multiple engineering teams
  • Ensure architectural design, security, resilience, and code quality of platforms
  • Coordinate with product, engineering, and customers to align on problem solving
  • Lead incident response, on‑call leadership, and observability initiatives
  • Conduct 1:1s, provide feedback, and support career growth of direct reports
  • Promote engineering best practices and improve delivery predictability

What you’ll bring

  • 9+ years software engineering experience
  • Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science or related field

Nice to have

  • Proven experience delivering production software in Go, Ruby, Rust, Python, JavaScript, C++, Java, etc.
  • 3+ years leading engineering teams building complex infrastructure or platform systems
  • Experience with large‑scale CI/CD, monorepo environments, and reliability engineering
  • Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
  • Ability to hire, coach, and develop engineers

Skills

LeadershipCI/CDPlatform EngineeringReliability EngineeringStakeholder ManagementTechnical StrategyMentoringDistributed Teams

Benefits

  • Health insurance
  • Retirement savings plan
  • Paid time off