Principal Software Engineering Manager

Overview

Microsoft is a company where passionate innovators come to collaborate, envision what can be and take their careers further. This is a world of more possibilities, more innovation, more openness, and the sky is the limit thinking in a cloud-enabled world.

The Microsoft Capacity Infrastructure Services team in Azure Core is responsible for provisioning new capacity (servers, networking) to enable Azure customers to leverage the latest offerings, see the illusion of infinite capacity, and grow the Azure business efficiently at hyperscale. After running for many years, the cycle is continued by safely taking old capacity offline (decommissioning/deprovisioning) and provisioning new capacity again in its place thus ensuring the cloud remains healthy and current. When portions of the cloud need to be reconfigured to be optimized to current demands, it needs to be done as quickly and efficiently as possible to capture the most value – and it needs to be done at cloud scale.

As a Principal Software Engineering Manager, you’ll work with a breadth of partners across Microsoft including developers in service teams, hardware engineers, network engineers, datacenter technicians, supply chain managers, and business leaders to enable the seamless update of hardware and the corresponding software systems that run Microsoft’s cloud.

This opportunity will enable you to learn unparalleled system-wide knowledge of how the Azure cloud is built and maintained. The contacts you make with experts will enable you to deep dive on services and new technologies. You’ll partner with them to develop improvements to increase agility and efficiency.

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

• Design, develop and maintain highly reliable engineering systems and infrastructure that enable building world class products leveraging new technologies and AI - where internal engineers are one of our primary customers.
• Design and develop distributed cloud software services and solutions that are engineered for scale, availability, high performance, and high reliability.
• Own and deliver complete features including design, architecture, implementation, testability, debugging, and shipping.
• Lead the refinement of products through data analytics and make informed decisions in engineering products through data integration.
• Collaborate with partner teams across the world to drive key platform capacity management capabilities and enhance customer capacity experience scenarios.
• Partner with stakeholders (e.g., project manager, technical leads) to define product requirements and create technical designs for future product capabilities.
• Hire top talent and foster a diverse and inclusive workplace.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND strong technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.
• In-depth experience with distributed systems, cloud-scale applications and live services.
• Proven experience in building, managing and/or leading an engineering team as a Manager or Tech Lead.

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

• General knowledge and experience of working with data at high scale.
• Troubleshooting skills across network, application, caching, queuing, load-balancing storage and distributed services layers.
• General knowledge of Azure Cloud.
• Practice of modern software engineering, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and releasing.

Key skills/competency

• Distributed Systems
• Cloud Architecture
• Software Engineering Management
• Azure Core Services
• Capacity Management
• System Design
• Data Analytics
• Team Leadership
• Technical Leadership
• Cloud-scale Applications