Are you an accomplished engineering leader who has a proven track record in solving intricate problems and catalyzing the adoption of distributed system-based services in a cloud? Do you thrive on navigating complex challenges, managing people effectively, orchestrating projects, and collaborating seamlessly across groups to drive success? If so, we invite you to seize an extraordinary opportunity to join our team as a Principal Engineering Manager.

Azure Core, a Microsoft team with a main vision to deliver world-class cloud infrastructure that powers the world's workloads. The Azure Core team organization spans software development, program and product management, and delivers the array of capabilities that serve as the foundation for customers’ cloud experiences. The mission of Azure Core Engineering Systems team is to create delightful engineering systems and actionable insights that radically improve how Azure Core services are built, validated, deployed, and experienced by customers. This team focuses on modernizing engineering systems, and on delivering a configuration distribution standard within Azure, leveraging distributed systems to revolutionize configuration distribution in Azure.

As a Principal Engineering Manager, you will lead a team of engineers in solving complex problems, driving adoption of good engineering practices and configuration distribution standard, and collaborating across groups to deliver successful outcomes. This role offers tremendous opportunities for learning, growth, and leadership development.

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 extensive technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C#, Java or Python

• OR equivalent experience

• Proven people management experience in the technical space.

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.

Additional / Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science.

• Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field.

• Proficiency with distributed systems and microservices architectures.

• Extensive experience with full-stack development and familiarity with cloud technologies like Azure or AWS.

• Experience with Python.

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