Significant commercial experience in a software development environment
Ability to evolve and uplift engineering practices and culture to build a world-class engineering team
Solid understanding of cloud development principles and patterns and excellent communications skills and ability to work collaboratively across several teams
Excellent problem-solving skills with ability to quickly adapt to new technology and go deep.
Great curiosity and willingness to question. High enthusiasm, integrity, ingenuity, results-orientation, self-motivation, and resourcefulness in a fast-paced environment.
Solve problems by always leading with deep passion and empathy for customers and
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, Golang, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or PythonOR equivalent experience,Or other object-oriented programming
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.
Preferred Qualifications:
Drive for delivering high quality and scale services
Experience in managing services with high SLA requirements and live site criticality
Effective communication and collaboration skills, including cross-group
Technical leadership experience in designing and running fault tolerant infrastructure services that run globally in a large scale
Experience in hiring and building a team
Experience in any of the following areas: large scale web applications, L7 data plane, distributed control plane, and asynchronous programming models
Responsibilities
Innovate, drive vision and deliver on critical components for AFD
Enable high scale critical services with 100% SLA for Microsoft and beyond
Provide technical, end-to-end leadership for the team and charter
Mentor and coach other engineers to drive our collaborative and passionate team culture
Grow and nurture the team with true Microsoft principles and culture