Principal Software Engineering Manager
Microsoft
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 field AND 12+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
- OR equivalent experience.
- Overall 6+ years of experience working on large scale services, with 3+ years in people leadership role.
- Exceptional teamwork and values that foster a positive team culture.
- Experience in collaborating with teams across different time zones and geographies.
- Experience in leading and coaching teams of software engineers; providing expert guidance, hands-on assistance, best practices, and training.
- Demonstrated ability to ramp up on both new and legacy technologies.
- Ability to modernize and evolve components used by millions without service interruption.
- Experience in working within an agile software development team, leveraging experimentation and prototyping, while continuing to measure and iterate.
- Proven fundamental understanding of how to deliver end-to-end scenarios with security, reliability, and engineering quality in mind.
- Ability to learn and work effectively in a highly ambiguous, rapidly evolving environment.
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:
- Knowledge in specific technologies such as Azure Service Fabric, CosmosDB, EventHub, Git, KeyVault, Tables/Queues/Blob storage etc.
- Proficiency in building cloud scale distributed services, systems and patterns.
This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
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 with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.