Principal Software Engineering Manager

Microsoft
Redmond, WA, United States
3 months ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Experienced
Experience required
4 years minimum
Compensation
$139,900.0 - $274,800.0
Working hours
Regular working hours

Tech stack

Microsoft Online Services C++ (Programming Language) Software Design Documents Distributed Systems Software Engineering Information Technology

Job description

  • Defines the strategy, designs/develops products and builds & grows the team.

  • Contributes to the identification of dependencies, and the development of design documents for a product area with little oversight.

  • Creates and implements code for a product, service, or feature, reusing code as applicable.

  • Guides partnership with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project manager, technical lead) to determine user requirements within and across teams.

  • Provides technical leadership for the team as well as partners.

  • Drive product roadmap and execution with clarity, including translating abstract problem?statement?into a high-quality product strategy and design.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including C, C++ 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.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Master’s Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including C, C++ OR Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 12+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including C, C++ OR equivalent experience.

  • 4+ years of experience in lower level storage stack and storage datapath.

  • 6+ years of experience in Storage, File-Systems, Distributed Systems, Performance, Operating Systems, and/or Kernel mode programming.

About the company

Azure Storage team is chartered with building, managing, and running the persistent cloud storage for Microsoft Azure cloud. We are one of the foundational services in the Azure Cloud and host data from some of the largest companies in the world plus all of Microsoft’s largest online businesses.

We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer Manager who is interested in building and optimizing a world class distributed file system. If you love large scale distributed systems, love to work on new projects where you can define the work, scope, direction, and architect new solutions to make an impact on a massive product like Azure Storage, this could be position for you!

You would be joining a talented, highly collaborative team, with responsibility for engineering the lowest most fundamental layers of the Azure storage service. You will be working on the next generation storage platform being built on storage servers with Data Processing Units (DPU). The role brings exposure to cutting edge storage, memory, networking, and distributed system technologies, with broad opportunity to influence both the business and the industry as you help build the next generation hyperscale storage system to support AI workloads for our largest AI customers, and about how new hardware innovations like DPUs can be leveraged in such systems.

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., 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., Microsoft Corporation

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