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Principal Software Engineer Manager- Azure Edge and Platform

Microsoft Power Platform Community
Redmond, WA Full Time
POSTED ON 2/21/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 3/20/2025
Overview

Microsoft Azure Edge Platform (E P) is a globally distributed team of engineers, architects, program managers, product managers, business program managers, business administrators, user experience researchers and designers who are responsible for the platform for Microsoft and for delivering Microsoft’s edge vision. We create the most reliable and trustworthy OS and platform services to empower Microsoft and our customers to achieve more. We unlock the next wave of opportunity at the edge through an at-scale ecosystem driving widespread adoption of our Microsoft cloud services.

The Azure Edge Platform engineering team is seeking a talented Principal Software Engineer Manager- Azure Edge and Platform . In this role, you will lead a diverse team of passionate engineers with a wide range of experiences and backgrounds. Your primary responsibility will be to help your team achieve their best while maintaining excellent team health and ensuring everyone stays focused on delivering high-scale, cloud-native services for Windows partners and manufacturers. This position offers a unique opportunity to deepen your knowledge of Azure and the Windows ecosystem, as well as to gain experience in delivering and operating high-scale, high-availability services.

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

The Azure Reliability team is looking to hire a talented Principal Software Engineer Manager- Azure Edge and Platform to lead the service in designing and delivering new AI and ML-powered scenarios for all of Microsoft's cloud services and products. This individual will also need to drive the adoption of this service across Microsoft and Azure customers. Additionally, this person will need to extend the team culture, help plan and prioritize work, manage and grow team members, and ultimately deliver and be accountable for a world-class cloud-native service.

Traditional software engineering skills such as agile methodologies with a focus on efficiency, iterating quickly, and failing fast are essential. The drive and deliver scalable, maintainable, AI\ML powered components.

Responsibilities:

  • Coach and support partnerships with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project manager, technical lead) to determine customer requirements.
  • Drive the identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.
  • Guide team members in producing extensible and maintainable code.
  • Act as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and guide other engineers across products, working on call to monitor systems/products/services for degradation, downtime, or interruptions.
  • Seek new knowledge that will improve availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale, and share knowledge with other engineers.

Qualifications

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, C, C , C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
    • OR equivalent experience.
  • 2 years of people management experience
  • 2 years of cloud services expertise
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:

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
    • OR related technical field AND 10 years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C , C#, Java, JavaScript,
    • OR Python
    • OR Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8 years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C , C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
    • OR equivalent experience.
  • 4 years people management experience.
  • Experience in implementing large-scale, low-latency, and high-quality distributed systems
  • Knowledge of Microsoft Azure, AWS, or similar cloud computing platforms
  • Experience creating, developing, delivering, deploying, and maintaining online services
  • Expertise and knowledge in Agile engineering practices (Continuous Integration, TDD)
  • Demonstrated knowledge of modern software development and/or distributed services
Software Engineering M5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $137,600 - $267,000 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $180,400 - $294,000 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until March 4, 2025.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form .

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

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