Principal Software Engineering Manager
MicrosoftIreland22 hours ago
Full-timeEngineering, Information Technology
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The mission of the Azure portal is to democratize the cloud via a fast, simple, productive and beautiful single-pane-of-glass, where customers can explore, learn, acquire, manage and monitor all Azure products and services!
The Azure Portal is the main interface of Azure that millions of customers use every month. It provides a unified management experience, targeted toward developers and IT professionals, that brings together diverse experiences in data centers around the globe. The portal is built to be highly extensible and provides a framework that is used by hundreds of teams to create their user experiences for Azure. We are agile, flexible, customer-focused, and constantly on top of technology trends! We are charged to enable people and organizations to achieve more! The Azure Growth team builds the experiences that enables customers to start, estimate and track their Microsoft Azure journey through Azure signup, resource creation and resource optimizations.
As a Principal Software Engineering Manager on the team, you will be responsible for working with partner teams to deliver key Azure experiences. Your duties will include envisioning, designing, coding, validating, and shipping major features, along with managing the overall architecture of the product. Additionally, you will collaborate with the leadership team to inform product decisions based on your architectural knowledge and understanding of customer scenarios and code architecture. This role involves interaction with various teams across the company, offering broad exposure and opportunities to contribute.
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.
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Required Qualifications:
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, 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 and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.
The Azure Portal is the main interface of Azure that millions of customers use every month. It provides a unified management experience, targeted toward developers and IT professionals, that brings together diverse experiences in data centers around the globe. The portal is built to be highly extensible and provides a framework that is used by hundreds of teams to create their user experiences for Azure. We are agile, flexible, customer-focused, and constantly on top of technology trends! We are charged to enable people and organizations to achieve more! The Azure Growth team builds the experiences that enables customers to start, estimate and track their Microsoft Azure journey through Azure signup, resource creation and resource optimizations.
As a Principal Software Engineering Manager on the team, you will be responsible for working with partner teams to deliver key Azure experiences. Your duties will include envisioning, designing, coding, validating, and shipping major features, along with managing the overall architecture of the product. Additionally, you will collaborate with the leadership team to inform product decisions based on your architectural knowledge and understanding of customer scenarios and code architecture. This role involves interaction with various teams across the company, offering broad exposure and opportunities to contribute.
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 (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.
- 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.
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
- OR equivalent experience
- People management, cross team collaboration and stakeholder management skills.
- Experience in shipping production-grade software at scale.
- Proficiency in web development and in one or more of these web technologies: Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), JavaScript (JS), Active Server Pages .NET (ASP.NET), Node JavaScript (Node.js), and Representational State Transfer Application Programming Interfaces (REST APIs).
- 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.
- Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
- OR equivalent experience
- Experience leading engineering teams in building customer-facing products, with a strong foundation in cloud-native architecture, microservices, and asynchronous workflows.
- Proficiency with agent-based systems, workflow engines, or declarative programming models, which are highly desirable for this role.
- Experience collaborating with product and design to shape abstractions and reference implementations that scale across use cases, along with proficiency mentoring engineers and fostering a culture of technical excellence, inclusion, and continuous improvement.
- Ability to navigate ambiguity and drive clarity in early-stage platform development, thriving in fast-paced environments with cross-functional teams.
- Hands-on experience with cloud-native development on Microsoft Azure, including services like Azure Functions, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), and Azure Event Grid.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, 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 and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.
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