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Azure Compute is Azure's most profitable business and is growing incredibly fast! We provide millions of virtual machines for customers to run their workload in the cloud. We are a globally available foundational service that hosts services with the scale of Bing/Skype/AzureStore/SQL, host millions of multiplayer gaming sessions and allow solving large computational problems in seconds. Azure Compute team is the “kernel” of Microsoft’s Cloud. We build a customer centric fault tolerant distributed system on top of commodity datacenter hardware, to deliver an infrastructure for hosting cloud applications in virtual servers. We create an illusion that resources are limitless, infinitely elastic, and always available.

The team is working on few different areas that you can have a big impact. This includes: Projects improving Azure scale - this includes capabilities and mechanisms for larger service footprints, managing 20x more physical machines and services than it does today. We are building a set of highly scalable, highly available, micro services that will be the next generation service management for all azure types of compute services.

Projects involving end customer service uptime and availability - applying and building machine learning to build a 'Smarter' kernel that can be adaptive to events in the datacenter and services to decide on actions - especially when needed to increase service availability and uptime. Projects around service reliability and performance - provide extremely reliable and fast on-demand compute instances irrespective of the size and scale of the service (multiple orders of magnitude faster than today).

We are hiring for a Principal Software Engineering Manager who can collaborate closely with the customer and other teams in Microsoft to develop and deliver the solutions. Windows Azure is a big bet for Microsoft, and we are taking big bets of our own in the compute team. If you’re interested in attacking hard technical problems and driving innovation in an area that has huge potential for impact on the company’s future, then this is THE position 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

• You will lead a team of engineers to design and develop large scale distributed software services and solutions.

• You will help mentor and grow Engineers in the team.

• You will provide thought leadership and technical direction, architectural inputs and collaboration with partners to deliver high quality products.

• You will ensure that services and components are well-defined and modularized, secure, reliable, diagnosable, actively monitored, and reusable.

Other

• Embody ourCulture (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/culture) & Values (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/about/corporate-values)

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.

• 5+ years of experience working on distributed systems/cloud services.

• 5+ years of people management experience.

Other Qualifications:

• 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.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 10+ 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 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.

• OR equivalent experience.

• 6+ years people management experience.

• Experience as a Technical Lead for projects that drive collaboration across multiple components and the ability to lead engineers in the team.

• Experience with online services and Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence AND software engineering principles and architecture design.

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