Microsoft Principal Software Engineering Manager 

India, Telangana, Hyderabad 

388911892

As the owners of the platform that runs such a diversity of applications, we need to guarantee quality of service (QoS) for our customers. Metrics like uptime/availability/reliability and service performance take on a new meaning at the scale we operate. Our customers want 5 9’s+ of availability, transparent maintenance and updates to their systems, resiliency of their workloads despite hardware (H/W) and system failures that happen all the time in the datacentre, ability to deploy & dynamically scale large number of VMs/containers reliably. Ensuring the quality of service (QoS) at scale requires us to architect and build systems across all layers and we work on architectural improvements across the entire Azure Core stack (Azure Compute Manager, Azure Host OS and Host Agent, Compute Resource Provider, Azure Networking etc) to achieve the SLAs.

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.
• 3+ years experience
  • managing teams and/or a strong passion to model/coach/care and make others successful,
  • AND in building, deploying, and operating reliable systems preferably with experience in distributed systems fundamentals
  • AND with writing and debugging code which requires good understanding of threading and asynchronous programming fundamentals,
  • AND engage in site-reliability engineering practices.

Other Qualifications:

• 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.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 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.
• Experience with or understanding of CI/CD pipelines & ADO Experience developing software hosted in Azure, AWS, or other similar Cloud platforms.
• Data driven approach to solving problems iteratively and measuring success. Commitment to collaboration and teamwork and ability to deliver via influence.

• Build, deploy, and operate world-class services that will validate, observe, and measure the quality of components in all layers of the Azure Core stack.
• Bring clarity, create energy, and drive results – you’ll set a vision, rally the team behind it, and deliver for our customers.
• Demonstrate the Microsoft manager attributes of coach, model, and care with the engineers on your team, so they all learn, grow, and succeed.
• Plan and prioritize work for your team, including collaborating with partner organizations.
• Create an inclusive environment that attracts and retains high-performing engineers.
• Guides partnership with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project manager, technical lead) to determine user requirements within and across teams.
• 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.