Microsoft Principal Software Engineer Manager 

United States, Washington 

9608533

As a Principal Software Engineer Manager, you'll tackle the dual challenges of scale and performance as you delve into the CNCF Cilium stack and the Retina open-source project, pushing the boundaries of Azure's networking capabilities. Your contributions will go beyond mere participation; you'll spearhead efforts to build products around cloud native network security, observability, reliability, and efficiency, all while navigating the complexities inherent in large-scale distributed systems. Leveraging your passion for open-source, you'll bring external innovations into our ecosystem, enriching Azure's offerings with community-driven advancements. As a manager you will be involved in the execution for timely and high quality delivery of our products.

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, Go, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
• 4+ years of exerience in cloud native technologies like Kubernetes, Containers, Docker, etc.
• 4+ years of design, coding and outstanding technical problem solving and debugging skill

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:

• Experience in technology innovation, especially in cloud networking and open-source projects
• Experience designing and implementing automated tests, including unit tests and integration tests
• Experience with distributed systems, large scale orchestration frameworks
• MS or PhD degree in Computer Science, or equivalent experiences
• 4+ years of people management experience

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 April 30, 2024.

• Work on a unique and highly visible projects in the SDN Container Networking area where the outcome will directly impact new business opportunities for Azure.
• Define, drive, execute and adopt capabilities that will have a significant business impact.
• Guides partnership with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project manager, technical lead) to determine user requirements within and across teams.
• 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.
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