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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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The Senior Software Engineering Manager will lead a team of Site Reliability Engineers focused on the availability, resiliency, security, and operational excellence of large-scale ad serving systems across hybrid on-premises and Azure environments. The manager will guide the design and operation of observability, automation, incident response, scaling, and failover capabilities while driving continuous improvement through blameless postmortems and infrastructure-as-code practices. Key responsibilities include managing on-call rotations, troubleshooting production issues, and partnering with machine learning and platform teams to accelerate research-to-production workflows. Required technical skills include coding in languages such as C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python. The role also involves utilizing tools like Grafana, Datadog, and OpenTelemetry, alongside experience with Terraform, Bicep, CI/CD pipelines, distributed systems, networking, and storage.
What does a Software Engineering Manager earn?
Median $214394 from 123 postings across 39 companies.
Lead a team of SREs to ensure uptime and resiliency of hybrid on-premises and Azure ad serving systems.
Design and maintain monitoring, alerting, and logging systems to provide real-time visibility into platform performance.
Build automation for deployments, incident response, scaling, and failover in hybrid cloud environments.
Manage on-call rotations, troubleshoot production issues, and conduct blameless postmortems to drive continuous improvement.
Ensure data privacy, compliance, and secure operations across all serving environments.
Partner with ML and platform teams to improve developer experience and accelerate research-to-production workflows.
What we're looking for
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field and 4+ 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 upon hire and every two years thereafter.
Master'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 (preferred).
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field and 8+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in languages like C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python (preferred).
4+ years of experience managing Linux and open source systems (preferred).
4+ years of people management experience (preferred).
6+ years of experience in monitoring and observability tools such as Grafana, Datadog, or OpenTelemetry (preferred).
Experience migrating complex systems from on-prem to public cloud, using Infrastructure-as-Code, knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, and knowledge of distributed systems, networking, and storage (preferred).
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