Overview
Azure Edge+Platform (E+P) is responsible for Microsoft's Operating Systems, IoT and Edge products, Engineering Systems, and Health Platforms that span cloud-to-edge and edge-to-cloud. E+P is the platform team for the company and the foundation upon which virtually every Microsoft product and service, like Azure, Xbox, HoloLens, Visual Studio, Microsoft 365, and Microsoft Teams, is built. E+P products and services enable engineers to build out, deploy, manage, monitor, and secure Azure, Windows, and the rest of Microsoft. Additionally, E+P is responsible for several multibillion-dollar businesses of its own including Windows and Azure Monitor. E+P's mission is to empower every person and organization on the planet to achieve more, meeting them where they live, work, and make decisions-at the edge.
As a Software Engineering Manager for the Engineering Systems (ES) team in Azure Edge+Platform, you will join a team which builds and operates the Engineering System for two of the largest businesses at Microsoft: Azure and Windows. We provide our engineers, who work on code ranging from Azure Services to Windows and Linux based products, with tools and services to empower them to deliver world-class quality and secure products, with efficiency and high developer productivity, in a fiscally responsible way. This in turn helps enable Microsoft to deliver more functionality, of higher quality, with better security, and do it faster and more economically. This opportunity will allow you to partner with multiple teams, address unique technical and non-technical challenges as well as constantly grow your management skills. 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
• Coaches and supports partnership with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements within teams.
• Builds and maintains communication with key partners across the Microsoft ecosystem of engineers.
• Drives identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.
• Coaches team members within the team in producing extensible and maintainable code.
• Coaches team to drive multiple group's project plans, release plans, and work items in coordination with appropriate stakeholders.
• Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and guides other engineers across products, working on call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions.
• Seeks new knowledge 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.
Other
• Embody our culture and values.