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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 Software Engineering Manager joins the Customer Innovation Engineering team within the Office of the CTO to support the Cloud and AI Platform. In this player-coach role, you will lead a distributed engineering pod across North America while maintaining direct individual-contributor commitments. You will build and evolve an observability-focused Azure service, contributing to software design, development, and production reliability. Key responsibilities include managing engineers, providing architectural guidance, and solving complex customer problems regarding cloud workloads. You must possess proficiency in languages such as C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python. The role requires deep knowledge of cloud architecture, distributed systems, microservices, and containerized workloads like Kubernetes. You will translate real-world customer experiences into product capabilities, ensuring scalable architectures and operational excellence for production-grade applications.
What does a Software Engineering Manager earn?
Median $214394 from 123 postings across 39 companies.
Design, build, and optimize production-grade applications on Azure for strategic customers.
Contribute to the design and development of new observability-focused platform capabilities.
Manage production reliability through on-call participation, incident investigation, and engineering improvements.
Develop reusable technical assets, tools, and reference implementations to accelerate Azure adoption.
Influence Azure platform engineering by translating real-world customer feedback into product improvements.
Provide technical direction, coaching, and people leadership to a distributed engineering pod.
Set engineering priorities and align team efforts with business goals and long-term technical value.
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 and other required security screenings.
Master's Degree in Computer Science and 8+ years of technical engineering experience (preferred).
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science and 12+ years of technical engineering experience (preferred).
4+ years of people management experience (preferred).
Significant professional experience designing, building, and operating complex cloud-native applications and distributed systems (preferred).
Demonstrated experience leading and developing engineering teams, including technical mentorship and delivery ownership (preferred).
Experience in a player-coach role combining hands-on development with people management and technical direction (preferred).
ETL
Applications Integration
Agile Development
Release Management
UX) Design
System Testing
Software Process Improvement
Application Delivery Process
Application Development Tools
Data Exchange
Java
Spring
Kafka
Camunda
PostgreSQL
Redis
Distributed Systems
API Design
Event-Driven Architecture
Cloud-Native
Platform Engineering
Agile
L3 Support
Root-Cause Analysis
Azure
Infrastructure-as-Code
Terraform
Bicep
CI/CD
Observability
Grafana
Datadog
OpenTelemetry
Python
Java
C#
C++
C
JavaScript
Linux
Distributed Systems
Networking
Storage
Cloud-native Development
CI/CD
Test Automation
Observability
Production Operations
AI-assisted Development
Security Automation
Orchestration Platforms
Distributed Systems
SaaS
Hybrid-cloud
Secure Software Delivery