Microsoft Principal Engineering Manager 

India, Telangana, Hyderabad 

996556432

Required:

• BE/BTech/BS or MS degree in Computer Science or equivalent field.
• 10+ years of industry experience building and shipping software using modern programming languages such as C#, C++, Java, Go or Python.
• Track record of delivering significant engineering projects across multiple ship cycles.
• At least 4 years of experience in people management.
• Demonstrated history of leading successful engineering teams that work well together.
• Strong technical and problem-solving skills.
• Customer obsession and passion for shipping high quality products.
• Excellent planning, execution, and communication skills.

Preferred:

• Experience working in a Linux environment and/or with open source projects
• Experience building and shipping a large-scale cloud service is a big plus
• Experience with cloud infrastructure such as Azure, AWS or GCP
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and DevOps tools and processes
• Experience working with geo-distributed engineering teams and XFN partners
• Experience in site-reliability engineering practices and supporting scalable live site services
• Experience growing and mentoring senior engineers

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.

• Lead, hire, and grow a diverse world-class team of software engineers.
• Lead delivery for a highly scalable cloud native service working with engineers and peer teams.
• Partner with product management, partners, customers, and other stakeholders to define requirements, scope projects and ship products in rapid, iterative cycles.
• Stay up to date on industry trends around web development, testing, cloud native technologies, OSS and dev ops processes, mentoring team on innovation, modern design, and service engineering.
• Support customers and live site in a dev ops model.
• Build for security, privacy, scale, reliability, and compliance.
• Lead others by exemplifying growth mindset, inclusiveness, teamwork, and customer obsession.
• Mentor, coach and grow engineers while modeling care, respect, and inclusiveness.