Principal Software Engineering Manager

• Lead a team of engineers, with responsibility of deep technical mentorship and career direction of team members.
• Provide technical leadership for the design and implementation of the future architecture for proven highly scalable, resilient, durable, maintainable, performant services and user experiences.
• Lead and actively participate in the full software development life cycle:

• Create design and architecture documents.
• Review artifacts and code.
• Ensure safe release of updated experiences, with special consideration for security, privacy, compliance, and accessibility.
• Foster a data driven approach with focus on the customer.

• Collaborate with multiple teams across Microsoft for joint delivery of customer experiences.
• Collaborate with multiple functions to drive the definition of requirements, KPIs, priorities and planning of engineering deliverables.
• Evolve development guidelines, practices, systems, and tools to meet a world where client and services development and delivery is moving faster than ever.

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

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., * Extensive years of industry experience designing, building, testing, shipping, and maintaining software and services.

• Solid ability to attract, hire, and retain top talent.
• Excellent leadership, collaboration, and communication skills.
• Ability to operate at a high level in a fast paced, dynamic environment with competing priorities and ambiguity.
• Ability to analyse, interpret, and communicate data to uncover opportunities for improvement.
• Excellence in software engineering practices - system design, coding, testing, and monitoring, and analytical problem-solving skills.
• Expertise in building and running proven highly available, highly scalable, reliable, concurrent, distributed systems.
• Expertise in safe release, deployment and maintenance of cloud services using experimentation and telemetry.
• Experience with one or more of the following - C#, ASP.NET, JavaScript, Service Fabric, Web Services, APIs.
• Passion for making software engineering more efficient by designing and developing solutions at scale and make data driven decisions.
• Deep commitment to inclusiveness and diversity.

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Software Engineering M5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $139,900 - $274,800 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 $188,000 - $304,200 per year.

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