Azure Core is Azure's most profitable business and growing incredibly fast! We, the Azure Core Compute team in IDC, pride ourselves in working without boundaries to deliver the cloud platform capable of running any customer application/workload. As the owners of the platform that runs such a diversity of applications, we need to guarantee Quality of Service (QoS) for our customers. Metrics like uptime/availability/reliability and service performance take on a new meaning at the scale we operate. Our customers want 5 9’s+ of availability, transparent maintenance and updates to their systems, resiliency of their workloads despite H/W and system failures, ability to deploy and dynamically scale the infrastructure while maintaining high reliability.

Ensuring the QoS at scale requires us to architect and build systems across all layers and we work on architectural improvements across the entire Azure Core stack to achieve the SLAs, along with leveraging AI/ML techniques to analyze large volumes of telemetry data for continuous quality evaluation and optimization of these services.

We are looking for a talented and experienced Principal Software Engineering Manager who would lead a team on developing high scale intelligence-based systems that empower building and operation of Azure services and workloads with high quality and efficiency. We are looking for someone who is hands on, curious, willing to learn new technologies, and can help us evolve the cloud infrastructure for the next big growth. We provide ample opportunities and training to learn on the job. And always love to have a fresh/diverse perspective, as we build the next generation cloud infrastructure.

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Responsibilities

• Guides partnership with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project manager, technical lead) to determine user requirements within and across teams.

• Guides teams and leads identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.

• Optimizes, debugs, refactors, and reuses code to improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI).

• Guides team to drive multiple group's project plans, release plans, and work items in coordination with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers).

• Guides team and acts as an expert for Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and monitors other engineers across product lines, working on call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions.

• Leads product development and scaling to customer requirements and applies best practices for meeting scaling needs and performance expectations and holds accountability for products that do not meet expectations.

• Leads the team on delivering success through empowerment and accountability by modelling, coaching, and caring, and creating an environment where everyone can do their best.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND 10+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python

• OR equivalent experience.

• 6+ years of experience

• designing, developing, deploying, and operating reliable systems, including data analytics systems, with experience in distributed systems fundamentals, along with technical leadership in driving engineering roadmaps, leading teams, mentoring, and helping others grow;

• AND problem solving and debugging, writing and debugging code which requires good understanding of threading and asynchronous programming fundamentals, engaging in site-reliability engineering practices, and data driven approach to solving problems iteratively and measuring success.

Other Qualifications:

• Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: 

• Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 10+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python

• OR Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python

• OR equivalent experience.

• 4+ years people management experience.

• Knowledge and experience in data engineering, statistics, AI/ML.

• Experience with or understanding of CI/CD pipelines & ADO, along with developing software hosted in Azure, AWS, or other similar Cloud platforms.

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