Senior Software Engineering Manager

Microsoft is built on trust, and Azure is dedicated to becoming the most trusted cloud service for its customers. As Azure expands its services, certifications, and regions for its global customers, there is a growing need for increased support to uphold customer promises. The Azure Core Trusted Platform team is committed to enabling product teams to deliver capabilities that align with customer commitments and provide transparency.

We are seeking an experienced Senior Software Engineering Manager with an interest in cutting-edge AI technologies who is committed to safeguarding Microsoft and customer assets in the cloud. This role offers high visibility, significant responsibility, and the opportunity to lead the formation of a new team with a mission to develop services and automation that are integral to the Azure platform. If you are looking for technical disruption and ready to tackle diverse challenges to support our privacy, security, and compliance engineering efforts, the Azure Core Trusted Platform team has the competent role for you. Our team values inclusiveness and diverse ideas, and we prioritize empathy, trust, and ownership to drive our team culture and deliver products quickly and iteratively.

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Responsibilities

• Technical leadership, coaching and mentoring a team of highly skilled Software Engineers. 
• Lead discussions for the architecture of products/solutions and create proposals for architecture by testing design hypotheses and helping to refine code plans. Provide reactions, proposed solutions, and inputs to architects.
• Lead by example within the team by producing extensible and maintainable code. Apply metrics to drive the quality and stability of code, as well as appropriate coding patterns and best practices.
• Participate in code reviews to ensure coding standards are followed. Consider diagnosability, reliability, and maintainability when reviewing code, and understand when code is ready to be shared or delivered.
• Identify needs for a broad versus selected approach in testing mechanisms and make informed decisions to implement the most effective tests. Drive efforts to add new tests, remove antiquated tests, and aggregate tests to improve the test suite.
• Maintain operations of live service as issues arise on a rotational, on-call basis, and manage a team of 5-7 software engineers.
• Embody our Culture and Values 

Qualifications

Required Qualifications: 

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python

  • OR equivalent experience.

Other Requirements:

• 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.

Additional / Preferred Qualifications: 

• Bachelor'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 Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.

  • OR equivalent experience.    

• 2+ years people management experience.