Microsoft Principal Software Engineering Manager 

United States, New York, New York 

114740944

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.
• 4+ years people management experience.
• 4+ years experience in C development on unix environments.

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:

• Understanding of advertising systems.
• Experience in delivering mission-critical business backend systems on tight deadlines
• Building, monitoring, and operating globally distributed systems
• Experience with large scale and low latency systems
• Track record of strong execution, collaboration, and seeking alignment, working with stakeholders across a global team

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

• Guides partnership with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project manager, technical lead, product owners, and commercial partners) to determine requirements within and across teams.
• Guides teams and leads identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.
• Optimizes, debugs, refactors, and reuses code to improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI).
• Guides team to drive multiple group's project plans, release plans, and work items in coordination with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers).
• 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.
• Leads product development and scaling to customer requirements and applies best practices for meeting scaling needs and performance expectations and holds accountability for products that do not meet expectations.
• Brings strong engineering practices and processes, excels at operating and supporting high volume and highly critical business systems on a global scale, acts as an engineering role model who brings strong C and Unix experience in building distributed systems, and mentors and develops other engineers in the team on all aspects of world class software development.