Overview

Are you excited by the idea of shaping how Microsoft builds and operates cloud services at global scale? In this role, you will lead a team that builds the experiences and extensible platform that provide all Microsoft engineers with a 360-degree view of the security, privacy, compliance, and reliability profiles of their software. Our solution identifies the specific work items required by internal and external standards, leverages large scale data analyses and AI agents to find and to help address them, and provides comprehensive experiences to update and report status. Your work will directly enable the company to deliver secure, resilient, and trusted cloud services to millions of customers worldwide.

As a Software Engineering Manager in Azure Core, you will lead a highly skilled, collaborative, and fast-moving team that thrives on solving complex problems, iterating quickly, and delivering meaningful business value. You will work with modern Azure services and data technologies to build scalable, innovative, and impactful solutions that sit at the core of Microsoft’s cloud. We are looking for an action-oriented, technically strong and talented candidate that can drive high quality engineering, deal with ambiguity and help design innovative solutions. This role will enable you to grow technically building a mission critical product, work with massive data and cutting-edge AI technologies, and collaborate with engineering teams across the company.

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

• Responsibilities- Guides partnership with appropriate stakeholders (product manager, primary developer, co-developing engineering teams) 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.
• 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.

Qualifications:

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or a related technical field AND 8+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in one or more of the following languages:
  C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  OR equivalent experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s Degree in Computer Science or a related technical field AND 8+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in one or more of the following languages:
  C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python

OR

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or a related technical field AND 12+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in one or more of the following languages:
  C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  OR Equivalent experience.
• 4+ years of people management experience.

Other Requirements

• Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements for this role.

These requirements include, but are not limited to, the following specialized security screenings:

• Microsoft Cloud Background Check:
  This position requires passing the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
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This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.