Microsoft Principal Software Engineering Manager 

United States, California, Mountain View 

457064380

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 of experience in people management, demonstrating the ability to lead and influence across teams.
  
• Experience in developing and operating large-scale backend services.
  
• Experience with design, implementation in Azure Compute, Azure Storage, Azure Cache, or equivalent technology stack in other cloud providers.
  
• Experience in computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, distributed systems, information retrieval.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Ability to communicate technical details clearly across organizational boundaries.
• Experience in DevOps to maintain live services and\or application frameworks.
  
• Analytical skills with a systematic and structured approach to software design.
  
• Experience with or exposure to Agile and iterative development processes.
• Ability to communicate well and collaboration skills.

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

• Work with product, design and other stakeholders for understanding of requirements and turn them into architectural and design plans with implementation roadmap.
• Foster and develop talented engineers capable of developing and running scalable, reliable, maintainable services.
• Architect, develop, and sustain large scale distributed platform services.
• Providehands-on technical leadership: software design and development, coding, debugging complex issues, prototyping new features and reviewing code for quality.
• Keep a focus on the usage/metrics of the owned services and be super customer focused.
• Lead, coach, and build a diverse, inclusive, high-performing team where all team members can do their best work.  Create robust career development plans to help team members grow.
• Help the team plan and execute technical deliverables.
• Collaborate closely with teams within Microsoft to leverage the best technology to advance the team’s mission.
• Gain a working understanding of Microsoft as a business and collaborate with mentors and leaders to contribute to cohesive, end-to-end experiences for our users.