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$142,800–$274,800 / yr
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59 days ago

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Above market

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This role $209k
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This role pays more than 95% of similar roles. Most pay $152,150–$207,350 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $209k versus about $180k for comparable roles.

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Microsoft Corporation is a global technology leader producing software, hardware, and cloud services including Windows, Office 365, Azure cloud platform, Xbox gaming, and Surface devices. Industry: Software & Cloud Computing

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As a Principal Site Reliability Engineering Manager within Microsoft’s ES365 organization, you will lead a team of diverse SREs to enhance the reliability and operational proficiency of large-scale engineering systems used by teams building Office, Exchange, and Microsoft 365. Your day-to-day responsibilities include partnering with engineers and product managers to design and maintain reliable services, driving cross-organizational alignment through shared standards and tooling, and establishing service level objectives and indicators. You will also mentor team members on reliability engineering and incident response, automate processes to reduce operational overhead, and foster a culture of inclusivity and high performance. The role requires expertise in Azure cloud services, containerization, orchestration, and mature observability practices such as metrics, logs, and tracing, with a focus on improving engineers' productivity through scalable and reliable operations at enterprise scale.

Skills

Azure Kubernetes Docker CI/CD Prometheus Grafana Python Go PostgreSQL Terraform AWS GitOps SLOs SLIs Observability MetricstoLogsTracing IncidentResponse BlamelessPostMortems ServiceLevelObjectives CapacityPlanning

What you'll do

  • Partner with teams to design and maintain reliable and resilient services.
  • Drive cross-organizational alignment through partnerships and co-development.
  • Build and retain a team of Site Reliability Engineers.
  • Define, implement, and operate SLOs/SLIs for critical engineering systems.
  • Lead incident management and conduct blameless post-incident reviews.
  • Drive automation to reduce operational toil and improve efficiency.
  • Establish observability practices to meet reliability and latency goals.

What we're looking for

  • 5+ years of experience leading large-scale initiatives involving multiple engineers.
  • Proven expertise in reliability engineering for developer-facing or platform services.
  • Strong background in incident response, automation, and observability practices.
  • Experience with enterprise-scale distributed cloud service architecture and deployment.
  • Deep knowledge of operating CI/CD, build, and release platforms reliably and safely.
  • Ability to work across disciplines and align teams on reliability priorities.
  • Skilled in architecting and managing containerized services and orchestration tools.

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