Principal Software Engineering Lead @ Microsoft

Responsibilities

• Guiding and mentoring a team of 5 to 6 Software Engineers
• Giving thoughtful feedback, nurturing an inclusive engineering environment, championing engineering fundamentals and providing clarity and mentorship for team members to grow
• Exhibiting technical leadership throughout the broader CSE organization, with the Microsoft Product teams and the OSS community
• Working hands-on with your team and our customers through design and implementation, setting examples for good engineering practices and coding along the way
• Continuously improving our ability to deliver quality solutions through evolving our engineering process and technical capabilities

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience shipping or running production systems and/or software, including complex production systems that run on a public cloud

Preferred Qualifications:

• Strong software project delivery experience including architecture and coding, and ideally building cloud services
• We do not require deep expertise in all software stacks that customers use. However, we do look for people who have significant expertise in one software stack (and preferably more)
• Interest or experience in acting as a people manager, leading a team, and helping grow careers
• Experience working within and directing geographically dispersed, diverse, and virtual teams
• Industry experience in one of the following industries: automotive, energy, travel and transportation, financial services, government, health, manufacturing, media & communications, or retail
• Enjoy travel and are comfortable with regional travel up to 25%