Principal Software Engineering Manager - Java/C++/C#
Microsoft
If you have a passion for making engineers productive and happy and with that make M365 customers more productive and happier, we want you in ES365. Come be at the center of Office and join the team that’s building the future of Engineering Systems at Microsoft!
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
- Lead and support a team of 8-10 engineers to deliver high quality business objectives.
- Own and deliver complete features, including design, architecture, implementation, testability, debugging, and shipping. Work with engineers, program managers, partner teams and end customers to deliver a set of features with the right overall design and architecture.
- Provide hands-on technical leadership: architecture, design, code reviews, development, quality assurance and live site support.
- Drive modern engineering practices such as continuous integration, unit testing, automated deployments with integrated quality gates. Focusing on simplicity and maintainability as core tenets.
- Be a mentor for the people on your team and help them grow.
- Be committed to delivering the best experience for our customers.
- Foster a healthy and inclusive team environment that upholds Microsoft’s company values of Respect, Accountability, and Integrity.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field 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.
- 6+ years’ experience in professional software development.
- Demonstrated ability to effectively lead and operate in cross-functional global organization.
- Management experience leading a high-performance engineering team.
- Excellent design, coding, testing, problem solving, and debugging skills in any language.
- Proven track record of shipping high quality features/products/services.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
Preferred Qualifications:
- 3+ years’ experience as an engineering manager, or a technical lead with a passion for coaching and mentoring others.
- Experience driving a complex multi-year infrastructure project.
- Experience working across disciplines, groups, and teams.
- Proficiency in Object Oriented design with one of these languages - C#, C++ or Java.
- Experience architecting and delivering distributed cloud services, Azure preferred.
- Experience in Machine Learning and AI.
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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.
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