Microsoft Principal Software Engineer Manager 

Australia, New South Wales, Sydney 

541976206

As ayou will lead a team of software engineers who are designing, coding, validating, shipping and running high scale services. You will collaborate with a dynamic team and contribute to all aspects of the stack, from agents running on servers and Kubernetes clusters to high-scale, globally distributed cloud services. You’ll integrate with other Azure services and create solutions using.

Considering applicants in Sydney or Melbourne

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND min 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, Golang, or Python
• Demonstrated experience (min 4 years) in managing a team of engineers by setting clear expectations, keeping team members energized, and delivering results
• Strong experience using our tech stack ofKubernetes, AKS, GO, C#, Linux and .NET, Kubernetes is mandatory
• Strong experience leading product development to meet customer requirements including in designing and building licence management software
• 4+ years min experience designing and implementing distributed systems.

Preferred Qualifications

• 10+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C++, C#, Java, Golang or Python
• Ability to engage in site-reliability engineering practices.
• Experience building applications on the Azure platform.

Considering applicants in Sydney or Melbourne

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

• Leads product development to meet customer requirements and applies best practices to meet scale and performance expectations.

• Driving key projects, includingdesigning and building license management software, from design and implementation through to integration and testing

• Attract, retain, and lead geographically distributed teams of talented software engineers building highly scalable distributed services and infrastructure services.
• Guides partnership with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project manager, technical lead) to determine user 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.
• Research and dive deeper into technical issues to bring clarity to the team as needed.
• Optimizes, debugs, refactors, and reuses code to improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI).
• Guides team and acts as a professional 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.