Principal Software Engineering Manager @ Microsoft

Billions of users across the world rely on our products, and to meet this demand we design and implement world-class distributed systems .

As a Principal Software Engineer Manager of our Azure SRE teams, you will be responsible for improving the reliability of key Azure products.

The Azure SRE key focus areas are:

• Defining our systems reliability goals via Service Level Objectives (SLOs).
• Improving our systems production posture via targeted observability and operability enhancements (telemetry, alerting, incident management, change management, safe production changes).
• Building reusable automation to empower multiple teams to achieve their reliability goals.
• Influencing the product architecture and roadmap to make sure the customer-experienced reliability is always a key consideration when evolving the product.

Required Qualifications:

• 7+ years of software development experience in online services.
• 7+ years of experience using programming languages such as C#, Java, Python, Go, PowerShell or Bash.
• 7+ years of experience as a technical lead or engineering manager.
• Experience working with large-scale distributed systems (e.g., cloud computing providers, SaaS services, etc., ideally with millions or billions of users) or similarly complex environments.

Preferred Qualifications:

• B.Sc., M.Sc. or Ph.D. in Computer Engineering, Computer Science or related fields.
• Experience working on large and unfamiliar codebases (millions of lines of code)
• Awareness of, and ability to reason about, modern distributed software design patterns and cloud systems architecture, including microservices, containers, load-balancing, queuing, caching.
• Experience starting and coordinating complex projects across multiple teams.
• Experience setting technical direction for engineering teams.