Microsoft Principal Software Engineering Lead 

United States, California, San Francisco 

270974452

We invest in your health, wellness, and financial future by offering a competitive package including a wide range of benefits built around your personal needs and those close to you.

Required 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.

Preferred Qualifications

• Solid design and coding skills with a bias for architecture at scale
• Demonstrated ability to work with customers and collaborate across company boundaries
• Knowledge of Microsoft Azure, AWS, or similar cloud computing platforms
• Service delivery experience including architecture, coding, and building online services
• Experience leading geographically dispersed, diverse, and virtual teams
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 10+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
• OR Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
• OR equivalent experience
• 4+ years people management experience.
• Enjoy travel and are comfortable with travel up to 25%

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:Microsoft will accept applications for the role until August 2, 2024.

People Management

• Managers deliver success through empowerment and accountability by modeling, coaching, and caring.
• Model - Live our culture; Embody our values; Practice our leadership principles.
• Coach - Define team objectives and outcomes; Enable success across boundaries; Help the team adapt and learn.
• Care - Attract and retain great people; Know each individual’s capabilities and aspirations; Invest in the growth of others.
• Directly leading and managing a team of 5-6 software engineers

Understand User Requirements

• Collaborates with stakeholders on user requirements and feedback for features. Applies various feedback channels to improve designs or solutions. Measures customer value, usage patterns, and other metrics of value.

Design

• Leads and coaches others in designing, testing, and securing solutions for products/solutions.
• Working hands-on with your team and our customers from design through implementation of large-scale distributed systems, setting examples for good engineering practices and coding along the way.

Coding

• Leads and coaches team members in code quality, debugging, and performance improvement.

Implement

• Coaches team on project management, experimentation, and deployment across products.

Reliability and Supportability

• Coaches others on live service operations, issue resolution, and telemetry data analysis for system performance and functionality.

Engineering Excellence

• Continuously building your technical knowledge and improving our ability to deliver quality solutions by evolving our engineering process and technical capabilities.
• Coaches others on developing and using tools, automation, and compliance for a product.

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