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As organizations fully embrace cloud computing and move mission critical workloads into Microsoft Azure, the cloud infrastructure and platform are facing ever increasing challenges and requirements for reliability, performance, and scalability. If you are curious in understanding such challenges and are passionate about shaping next generation cloud technologies to systematically improve the core cloud architecture, this is the right team for you.

Azure Core is at the engine of Microsoft’s Cloud, powering infrastructure that is the foundation for cloud computing. As a Principal Software Engineering Manager in the Azure core engineering team, you will have a chance to lead a team with top notch team members and develop the latest cloud technologies. This opportunity will allow you to accelerate your career growth, work firsthand with customers globally, and uplift the entire cloud industry.

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

• You will manage a development team to work with internal and external stakeholders to understand challenges and identify opportunities.

• You will define and plan technology requirements and solutions to resolve complex end-to-end business and engineering challenges.

• You will drive the architecture plan, review, and development. This would entail both understanding and helping the customer define their solution architecture on the Azure platform, as well as:

• You will Drive issue or gap resolution across the Azure teams as they are encountered. Driving systemic improvements across Azure or proactively identifying feature gaps/capabilities and working across teams to ensure customers are enabled.

• You will partner with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a set of scenarios. Leverages subject-matter expertise of cross-product features with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to drive multiple group's project plans, release plans, and work items.

• You will hold accountability as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI), mentoring engineers across products/solutions, working on-call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions.

• You will proactively seeks new knowledge and adapts to new trends, technical solutions, and patterns that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale and shares knowledge with other engineers.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.

• OR equivalent experience.

• Experience with Software engineering management.

• Ability to guide teams and lead identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.

• Ability to guide partnership with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project manager, technical lead) to determine requirements within and across teams.

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:

• Proven ability to quickly adapt in rapidly evolving business situations.

• Expertise in one of the cloud platform areas, such as compute, network, and storage on Azure and/or competitive cloud technologies.

• Architecture design skills for complicated large-scale software systems.

• Customer mindset.

• Demonstrated technical leadership through prior technical coaching/leadership roles.

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