Principal Software Engineering Manager - CTJ - Poly

Microsoft has an exciting opportunity for a Principal Software Engineering Manager in the Cloud+AI Silver Core team.

We run Azure Core services in the Microsoft airgapped clouds. These services include the Azure Compute platform, the Azure Networking services, the Azure Kubernetes Services, among others. This team is the foundation of the airgapped clouds.

You will lead a team that will take Microsoft Azure Core for Government to the next level. You will solve hyperscale distributed systems problems. You will write software that is aware of network safety and fault domains. You will perform devops for the Compute Platform running VMs for all our Government customers. You will work on security initiatives that span the whole of Azure. You will build the next generation of AI technologies.

You will be responsible for leading and hiring a team of software engineers in the Reston, VA area and the Redmond, WA area. You will collaborate with teams in Azure Core and the broader Azure to ensure the success of the US Government clouds. The team is growing rapidly, and you’ll have the potential for tremendous career growth.

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 work with other teams in Azure Silver, participating in architectural and design reviews, and delivering your components with high quality. You will also have opportunities to collaborate across the broader Azure organization and with external Microsoft customers. There is high visibility in an area of large and expanding investment for Azure, offering a terrific opportunity for technical and career growth.

In Azure Silver Core, you own features from the design phase through implementation to production. As part of this ownership, you are expected to help support your features by actively participating in an on-call rotation, which includes creating/updating Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), Troubleshooting Guides, monitoring systems, mitigating/restoring network incidents, and deep-dive analysis of root causes of outages.

The scale of our operations is enormous. Microsoft's products and services are overwhelmingly consumed online, and billions of people use them every day. We need people who enjoy analyzing complicated problems, coming up with creative solutions, working in focused teams to build things no one has thought of before, all in the service of production reliability.

• Hire amazingly talented, cleared, software engineers to make our customers’ missions successful.
• Contribute to the development of automation within production and deployment of a complex product feature. Run code in simulated, or other non-production environments to confirm functionality and error-free runtime for products.
• Act as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and Incident Manager (IM) working on call to monitor service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions. Alert stakeholders as to the status and gain approval to restore system/product/service for simple problems. Respond within Service Level Agreement (SLA) timeframe. Escalate issues to appropriate owners.
• Contribute to efforts to collect, classify, and analyze data with little oversight on a range of metrics (e.g., health of the system, where bugs might be occurring). Contribute to the refinement of product features by escalating findings from analyses to inform decisions regarding the engineering of products.
• Apply best practices to reliably build code that is based on well-established methods. Follow best practices for product development and scaling to customer requirements and apply best practices for meeting scaling needs and performance expectations.
• Maintain communication with key partners across the Microsoft ecosystem of engineers. Consider partners across teams and their end goals for products to drive and achieve desirable user experiences and fitting the dynamic needs of partners/customers through product development.
• Maintain operations of live service as issues arise on a rotational, on-call basis. Implement solutions and mitigations to more complex issues impacting performance or functionality of Live Site service and escalate as necessary. Review and write issues postmortem and share insights with the team.
• Drive efforts to integrate instrumentation for gathering telemetry data on system behavior such as performance, reliability, availability, usage, and safety mechanisms. Drive sustaining feedback loops from telemetry resulting in subsequent designs. Create outputs of telemetry such as notifications or dashboards.
• Build, enhance, reuse, contribute to, and identify new software developer tools to support other programs and applications to create, debug, and maintain code for products. Use open source when possible. Begin to develop skills in other tools outside areas of expertise. Identify internal tools and create tools that will be useful for creating the product, determining if methods are still applicable for the current solution. Share best practices and teach others about new tools and strategies.

Qualifications

Required/Minimum 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.

Other Requirements

Security Clearance Requirements: Candidates must be able to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:

• The successful candidate must have an active U.S. Government Top Secret Clearance with access to Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) based on a Single Scope Background Investigation (SSBI) with Polygraph. Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements is required for this role. Failure to maintain or obtain the appropriate U.S. Government clearance and/or customer screening requirements may result in employment action up to and including termination.
• Clearance Verification: This position requires successful verification of the stated security clearance to meet federal government customer requirements. You will be asked to provide clearance verification information prior to an offer of employment.
• Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
• Citizenship & Citizenship Verification: This position requires verification of U.S. citizenship due to citizenship-based legal restrictions.

Preferred/Additional Qualifications:

• 4+ years people management experience leading a team of engineers with outstanding collaboration skills
• 10+ years of experience with PowerShell, C#, C++ or Java.
• Experience working on large-scale distributed services with on-call responsibilities.
• Ability to build and influence broadly towards common goals and priorities and to own end-to-end project lifecycle with solid project management and communication skills.
• Demonstrated experience shipping large scale software services.
• Demonstrated experience being a technical lead for software projects.
• Expertise in designing distributed systems and concurrent programming.
• Familiarity with at least one flavor of Linux as well as knowledge of distributed storage technologies.
• Knowledge of network switching and routing, Kubernetes, machine learning and Cloud security a plus.

Software Engineering M5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $133,600 - $256,800 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $173,200 - $282,200 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here .

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