Principal Software Engineering Manager- GitHub India
Microsoft · Hyderabad, India · Software Engineering
About this role
Microsoft is hiring a principal-level Engineering Manager in the software engineering function based in Hyderabad, India. The posting calls out experience with Python, JavaScript, Java, Rust.
- Role
- Engineering Manager
- Function
- software engineering
- Level
- principal
- Track
- hybrid
- Employment
- Full-time
- Location
- Hyderabad, India
- Department
- Software Engineering
- Posted
- May 15, 2026
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Job description
from Microsoft careersAs a Principal Engineering Manager on the GitHub Enterprise Server (GHES) Release team, you will lead the team responsible for critical parts of the GHES release pipeline. This includes OS and container builds across the platform, infrastructure, and application layers; package generation and certification; integration test environments; and distribution of release artifacts through Azure, AWS, and GCP.
In this role, you will define technical and operational priorities for the team, drive execution across a complex release surface, and partner across engineering organizations to ensure GHES ships as a high-quality, secure, and dependable appliance for enterprise customers.
Responsibilities
Lead, grow, and develop a team of engineers responsible for GHES release systems, validation environments, and package delivery workflows.
Own the engineering roadmap for GHES release systems, balancing reliability, velocity, operational health, and long-term platform investments.
Drive execution across build, package generation, validation, certification, and customer delivery workflows for GHES releases.
Ensure the team delivers reliable, representative, and scalable integration test environments that support continuous validation of GHES releases.
Drive improvements in CI quality, signal reliability, issue detection, and triage, partnering across teams to improve release readiness and reduce time to resolution.
Partner with engineering leaders across platform, infrastructure, application, and release teams to improve release readiness, debugging, and root-cause analysis.
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