Microsoft Principal Group Program Manager 

United States, Washington 

802072997

Site Reliability Engineering (

our cloud

role supports flexible work from home with occasional inoffice meetings.

Required/Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree AND 6+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 4+ years people management experience.
• 3+ years experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.

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/Additional Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree AND 10+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 8+ years experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.
• 1+ year(s) experience reading and/or writing code (e.g., sample documentation, product demos).
• 10+ years of experience with object-oriented programming languages, such as C#, Java, Python, or equivalent.
• Proven ability to work effectively with large and complex codebases, including those exceeding millions of lines of code.
• Understanding of modern distributed software design patterns and cloud systems architecture, including microservices, containers, load-balancing, queuing, and caching.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:Microsoft will accept applications for the role until January 14, 2025.

• Understanding of the distributed systems design, interactions between cloud technology layers and components, basic dependencies at scale, and the code that defines infrastructures.
• Managers deliver success through empowerment and accountability by modeling, coaching, and caring
• Sharesand defines insights, best practices, and standards that can be applied to improve system, platform, and/or product development and operations across the business.
• Expands end-to-end technicalexpertisein the architecture, code, features,operationsand comprehensive use scenarios of productsin order todrive continuous improvements
• Contribute to the product fundamentals and architecture, share knowledge, and code, always looking for ways to make what we build useful to multiple teams and products.
• Demonstrates end-to-endexpertisein distributed systems design, interactions between cloud technology layers
• Support ongoing engagements with product engineering teams byparticipatingin test maturity reviews, static analysis reviews, meetings, on-call rotations, and incident responses throughout product development and operations cycles.
• Provides deep business and technicalexpertiseasrequiredto resolve major incidents