Principal Software Engineering Manager

Microsoft is a company where passionate innovators come to collaborate, envision what can be and take their careers further. This is a world of more possibilities, more innovation, more openness, and the sky is the limit thinking in a cloud-enabled world.

Microsoft’s Azure Data engineering team is leading the transformation of analytics in the world of data with products like databases, data integration, big data analytics, messaging & real-time analytics, and business intelligence. The products our portfolio include Microsoft Fabric, Azure SQL DB, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure PostgreSQL, Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Service Bus, Azure Event Grid, and Power BI. Our mission is to build the data platform for the age of AI, powering a new class of data-first applications and driving a data culture.

Within Azure Data, the Microsoft Fabric platform team builds and maintains the operating system and provides customers a unified data stack to run an entire data estate. The platform provides a unified experience, unified governance, enables a unified business model and a unified architecture.

Fabric platform team is working on advanced security features for Fabric Platform. Lead a team of developers that work on design, development and integration of these security features with multiple workloads across the platform.

We are looking for a Principal Software Engineering Manager to Join our team.

We do not just value differences or different perspectives. We seek them out and invite them in so we can tap into the collective power of everyone in the company. As a result, our customers are better served.

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

• Develop highly-efficient code that scales to millions of active users at minimal operational costs.
• A hands-on technical leader who sets the engineering direction with sound design practices and
   guides the team with best practices in software design
• Establish KPIs and successfully drive execution through collaboration and partnership with PM
   team and partners.
• Mentor and grow senior engineers in the team.
• Lead the team by bringing clarity, creating energy, and driving results.
• Stakeholder management while prioritizing work for your team through collaboration with
   partner teams.
• Lead the architecture, design, and implementation of various capabilities within migration with
   focus on quality, scale and sustainable development practices.
• Drive a proficient culture of live site and customer obsession within the team.
• Embody our culture and values

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications 

• ​​Bachelor'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.
• 4+ years as an engineering manager
• 4+ years of experience/knowledge of cloud computing, enterprise computing, database
  products
• 4+ years of experience in technical leadership in driving engineering roadmaps, leading v-
  teams, mentoring and helping others grow technically.

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.