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Microsoft Corporation Principal Software Engineering Manager in Bucharest, Romania
The Azure Compute team, builds a fault tolerant, distributed system on top of commodity datacenter hardware, to deliver infrastructure for hosting cloud applications in virtual machines (VMs). The team creates an illusion that resources are limitless, infinitely elastic, and always available.
This role is in the Availability Platform team, within Azure Compute, that primarily focuses on making sure every Azure VM is available with an SLA of 99.99+%. Getting to that target and beyond requires out-of-the box thinking, backed by sound data-driven decisions. The team owns the services that measure the health of millions of Azure machine as well as the control plane services that make all repair decisions in Azure. The team also collaborates closely with data scientists to build predictive failure models to live migrate VMs off machines even before the failure occurs. VM availability is one of the top KPIs for Azure and Microsoft – come be part of the team driving the platform forward on this front.
As a Principal Software Engineering Manager you will be joining a talented team that invests in our people and technology for the long term. We emphasize comprehensive designs, incremental development with high quality, shipping frequently, and adapting quickly to customer feedback. Join us in pushing the boundaries of scale, reliability, availability, and efficiency. If you want hands-on services architecture experience at large scale, this is the role for you.
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
Leads and manages a team of engineers to ensure successful delivery of products, features, and services.
Guides partnership with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project manager, technical lead) to determine user requirements within and across teams.
Guides teams and leads identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.
Optimizes, debugs, refactors, and reuses code to improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI).
Guides team to drive multiple group's project plans, release plans, and work items in coordination with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers).
Guides team and acts as an expert for Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and monitors other engineers across product lines, working on call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions.
Leads product development and scaling to customer requirements and applies best practices for meeting scaling needs and performance expectations and holds accountability for products that do not meet expectations.
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
Experience with People Management
Preferred Qualifications:
Experience with designing and building highly available distributed systems at scale
Experience with debugging
Experience with agile methodologies and a willingness to adopt them
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.
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