Principal Software Engineering Manager

• Hire, manage, and grow a high-performing team of software engineers, fostering a culture of excellence, inclusion, and innovation.
• Lead the design and development of large-scale distributed systems and services that power Azure's AI infrastructure.
• Drive engineering planning and execution while ensuring alignment with organizational OKRs and long-term strategy.
• Establish lean, scalable, and efficient processes that promote innovation and engineering rigor.
• Deliver best-in-class engineering by ensuring services and components are modular, secure, reliable, diagnosable, observable, and reusable.
• Improve test coverage, automation, and integration testing to proactively identify and resolve reliability gaps.
• Ensure live-site reliability and service health through robust monitoring, telemetry, and automation.
• Collaborate across Microsoft and partner organizations to deliver cohesive, end-to-end infrastructure solutions.
• Apply data-driven insights to optimize performance, scalability, and customer satisfaction.
• Champion Microsoft's culture by modeling, coaching, and caring-nurturing diversity, inclusion, and continuous growth for your team and peers.

• 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., * 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., * 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 Bachelor'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.
• 4+ years people management experience.
• 10+ years of professional software design and development experience in large-scale distributed systems.
• Experience building and operating networking infrastructure for hyperscale datacenters or AI clusters.
• Hands-on experience with networking technologies in AI-specific hardware (e.g., InfiniBand, ROCE, MRC, NVLink).
• In-depth understanding of networking protocols (e.g., Ethernet, TCP/IP, RDMA, gRPC) and distributed systems.
• Familiarity with network virtualization, software-defined networking (SDN), or network performance tuning.Familiarity with AI accelerators such as GPUs (NVIDIA, AMD) or TPUs, and how they interact with networking infrastructure.
• Experience with telemetry and observability tools for network monitoring at scale.Background in building scalable and fault-tolerant systems in large, distributed environments.

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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