AddressMicrosoft 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 Principal 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 ideal 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. You'll work in a fast-paced environment, tackling problems that require creativity and collaboration to achieve meaningful business outcomes. We continuously strive for world-class engineering and operational excellence and encourage you to influence our designs and architectural roadmap and drive specific goals around scalability and availability. Join us and contribute to making Azure the most trusted cloud platform!
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.
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.
8+ years people management 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 or Preferred Qualifications:
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 15+ 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 12+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
OR equivalent experience.
8+ years people management experience.
2+ years managing people managers experience.
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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 orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.
Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.
- 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.
- Embody our culture and values.
- Manage teams of 15-20 software engineers.
