Principal Software Engineering Manager - Windows Cloud Platform Team

Principal Software Engineering Manager - Windows Cloud Platform Team

The Windows Cloud division is looking for a Principal Software Engineering Manager that will help us take the Windows Cloud platform, as well as the Windows 365 Cloud PC and Azure Virtual Desktop business to the next level.

Windows 365 Cloud PC (W365) and Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) have recently been recognized as leaders in the Gartner Magic Quadrant™ for Desktop as a Service (DaaS), two years in a row.  We continue to see expansion of these services and amazing adoption by enterprise and business customers. At its core, W365 and AVD provide business customers a modern, elastic, cloud-based Windows experience, and the ability to stay current in a simplistic and scalable manner. It has never been a more exciting time for us to scale this initiative!

As a Principal Software Engineering Manager in the Cloud Platform team, you will get an amazing opportunity to demonstrate leadership at both business and technology level. You will get to extend your knowledge of cloud computing, desktop virtualization, streaming technologies, and other technical areas including cloud-based management suites. You will be part of a team designing new platform capabilities involving virtualized compute, storage, networking, GPUs (graphics processing Unit), core connectivity services and streaming protocols (such as RDP- Remote Desktop protocol) for our products to enhance the value to our customer base. You will also be a part of an agile team working with experienced engineers and product managers that behave more like a technology startup.

Who you are:

You are hands-on, comfortable dealing with ambiguity and a shifting landscape. You have experience with Azure or other cloud infrastructure services at scale, passionate about iterating fast in a startup environment, and getting the right design for our customers while understanding and articulating the tradeoffs. With entrepreneurial spirit, and a can-do attitude, you can drive consensus across various stakeholders. You will be a key member of the Windows Cloud Platform engineering leadership team, drive critical design initiatives, participate in strategic & tactical decisions, collaborate with internal partner teams and will be accountable for shipping service offerings that succeeds with our customers.

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

• You will identify and drive software improvements using your expertise in software development, complexity analysis, and scalable system design to improve site reliability and fundamentals for Window Cloud services.
• You will work closely with other engineering teams and provide a holistic view of Windows Cloud services. You will drive quality releases to surpass customer expectation on service metrics.
• You will provide leadership to identify opportunities to drive the design and implementation of end-to-end telemetry, alerting, self-healing and automation capabilities to improve service health, manageability, and reliability of cloud services serving millions of cloud-based virtual devices.
• You will mentor and help grow a team of talented, diverse software engineers and site reliability engineers. You will work across organizations, collaborating with internal partner teams such as Azure Compute, Core OS (operating System), Microsoft Security and Identity team, and others.
• You will provide leadership for the architecture of secure, distributed, scalable, and resilient micro-services using modern technologies.
• You will raise the technical bar, maintain a data and results driven culture, and nurture a high-performance team to build world-class experiences for W365 and AVD end users, ITPros, partners, and operations teams.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline 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.