Principal Software Engineering Manager

Do you see yourself as a coach, a guide, a collaborator, and an engineer? Would you be excited to drive major changes to a high scale service that is critical to the company? Do you care deeply about fostering a team culture? We are looking for a Principal Software Engineering Manager for the Substrate Experimentation and Configuration Service (ECS) Team who embraces these roles and is excited by the technical challenges that come with building and scaling services.   

ECS provides a powerful Configuration Management Platform that enables safe and quick reconfiguration of service or client software without requiring redeployment. This platform supports configurations driven by multiple factors, including A|B experiments, feature rollouts, live-site mitigations, and telemetry toggling or sampling.   

The Principal Software Engineering Manager, will model technical and service excellence and embrace Microsoft cultural values of inclusion and caring. They will work with each person on thier team to help them to do their work and grow and define the business goals for the team then create and execute on a plan to meet those goals.

The Principal Software Engineering Manager will be expected to care deeply about the availability, resilience, scalability, and cost of the critical 5-9s service we are running.

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

• Lead and support a team of 8-12 engineers in the US and Latin America to deliver high quality business objectives.  
• Collaborate closely with an integrated remote team in Suzhou, China; work with a peer Engineering Manager to define joint goals execution plan.  
• Partner with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project manager, technical lead) to set the product strategy for some high-impact or critical services or products. 
• Create strategic roadmap for the system architecture by considering how related systems will evolve soon. 
• Create a strategy to ensure that responses to incidences are appropriate by balancing short-term and long-term tradeoffs of resource investment as well as strategic needs of the product or service. 
• Create and drives a culture for creating high-quality products, and continuously integrating and deploying code in simulated, or other non-production environments to confirm functionality and efficient runtime across some of the highest impact or most critical products or services.

  Other

  • Embody our Culture and Values

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline 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.
• 5+ experience as an engineering manager or tech lead. 

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 12+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python 
  • OR equivalent experience.

Software Engineering M6 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $161,600 - $286,200 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $209,600 - $314,400 per year.
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until July 4, 2024.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orien