Principal Software Engineering Manager

Overview

Are you passionate about building complex things using a large number of simple components efficiently, safely, consistently and at scale? Come join a team that values diversity, inclusion, collaboration and learning-and-growing-together to expand the foundation and the core of Azure.

As a Principal Software Engineering Manager in the Microsoft Capacity Infrastructure Services organization, you will lead a team and be responsible for leveraging Artificial Intelligence (AI)/Copilot to evolve a platform and relevant tools which are used to expand Azure to new locations to quickly meet new and rapidly changing needs from customers, especially those related to AI, in a predictable, efficient, safe, and secure way. This opportunity will allow you to further develop your problem-solving, software engineering, leadership and management skills, become adept at cooperating and collaborating with many teams to achieve shared goals, and learn, grow and innovate together with your teammates.

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.

Responsibilities

• Guides partnership with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project manager, technical lead) to determine user requirements within and across teams.
• Guides teams and leads identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.
• Optimizes, debugs, refactors, and reuses code to improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI).
• Guides team to drive multiple group's project plans, release plans, and work items in coordination with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers).
• Guides team and acts as an expert for Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and monitors other engineers across product lines, working on call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions.
• Leads product development and scaling to customer requirements and applies best practices for meeting scaling needs and performance expectations and holds accountability for products that do not meet expectations.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.
• 5+ years engineering experience with distributed systems, with proven problem-solving and design skills and a growth mindset.
• 2+ years people management experience.

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.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science OR related technical field AND 10+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, or Rust OR Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, or Rust OR equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of coding/designing experience in distributed systems cloud-based services.
• 3+ years engineering experience in Cloud Infrastructure and people management experience.

Key skills/competency

• Software Engineering
• Distributed Systems
• Cloud Infrastructure
• Artificial Intelligence (AI)
• Azure
• Leadership
• People Management
• Python
• C#
• System Design