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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 Software Engineering Manager - Azure Core, you will join the Virtual Machines and Containers team to lead engineers in developing foundational virtualization and container technologies. You will drive engineering execution, technical strategy, and people development while overseeing project plans, release cycles, and the resolution of complex site incidents. Your daily work involves identifying dependencies, creating design documents, and optimizing, debugging, and refactoring code for performance and maintainability. The role requires expertise in operating systems, distributed systems, confidential computing, and workload mobility to solve problems related to cloud-scale infrastructure. Candidates should possess experience with programming languages such as C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python. You will be responsible for ensuring products meet scaling requirements and performance expectations while managing technical leadership across various product lines within the core cloud infrastructure space.
What does a Software Engineering Manager earn?
Median $223750 from 106 postings across 38 companies.
Lead a team of engineers in developing core virtual machine and container platform capabilities.
Partner with stakeholders to determine user requirements for multiple solutions and product lines.
Provide technical leadership for identifying dependencies and creating design documents for products and services.
Optimize, debug, and refactor code to improve performance, maintainability, and return on investment.
Drive project plans, release plans, and work items in coordination with cross-functional partners.
Resolve complex site incidents and direct the work of engineers across various product lines.
Communicate new standards and best practices to ensure products meet scaling and performance requirements.
What we're looking for
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field and 6+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in languages like C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
Ability to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check.
Master's Degree in Computer Science or related field and 8+ years of technical engineering experience (preferred).
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field and 12+ years of technical engineering experience (preferred).
6+ years of people management experience (preferred).
2+ years of experience building Virtualization features, Operating systems features, or device drivers and/or firmware (preferred).
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