Principal Software Engineering Manager

Overview

Are you passionate about exploring the limits of the cloud and creating a space where customers can explore, learn and manage 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!

As an Engineering Manager on the team, you will be responsible for collaborating with partner teams to deliver key azure experiences. You will not only be responsible for envisioning, designing, coding, validating, and shipping large features, but will also be responsible with the ownership of the overall architecture of the product, while working with the leadership team to help them drive product decisions based on your knowledge of the architecture and your deep understanding of the customer scenarios and customer code architecture. You will have the opportunity to work with a wide variety of people from across the company giving you wide exposure and a broad surface to impact in a positive manner.

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

• Managers deliver success through empowerment and accountability by modeling, coaching, and caring.
• Guides partnership with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project manager, technical lead) to determine user requirements within and across teams. Leverages a variety of feedback channels to incorporate insights into future designs or solution fixes. Guides incorporation of appropriate continuous feedback loops measuring customer value, usage patterns, and other actionable metrics of value. Begins to determine additional critical metrics.
• Guides team in creating clear and articulated plan for testing, and defines success for test outcomes. Identifies needs for a broad versus selected approach in testing mechanisms and makes informed decisions to implement the most effective tests. Leads and guides efforts to augment test cases and ensure the solutions have good test coverage. Leads efforts to ensure the scalability and reliability of the test framework during design. Leads efforts to integrate automation features during testing planning.
  
  

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.
• 3 years people management experience.
• 3 years of proficiency in one or more of these web technologies: HTTP, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, ASP.NET, Node.js, REST APIs.
  

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.
• Experience with technologies like Single Page Applications, JSON, AJAX, and Git.
• Prior work experience with Azure (or other cloud services) and REST APIs.
  

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 .

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 23rd, 2025.

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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