Principal Software Engineering Manager

1 Month ago • 6-10 Years • Full Stack Development • DevOps • $137,600 PA - $294,000 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

The Azure Edge team at Microsoft seeks a Principal Software Engineering Manager to design and build cutting-edge services for network security and reliability. This role involves managing a team, guiding the development of design documents, optimizing code, and ensuring product scalability and performance. Responsibilities include working with stakeholders, driving project plans, monitoring systems, and acting as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI). The successful candidate will lead product development, address scaling needs, and hold accountability for product performance. The team operates one of the world's largest network infrastructures.
Must have:
  • Bachelor's degree in CS or related field
  • 6+ years technical engineering experience
  • 1+ year people management experience
  • Coding proficiency (C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Python)
  • Meet Microsoft security screening requirements
Good to have:
  • Master's degree in Computer Science
  • 10+ years technical engineering experience
  • 4+ years people management experience

Job Details

Overview

The Azure Edge team is looking for talented engineers to design and build state-of-the-art services that provide route security and reliability into the networking stack for one of the biggest networks in the world. 

 

As part of this, the Azure Edge team is responsible for building Azure Edge Datacenters in locations close to end users and developing & deploying Azure applications & services on them.

Azure Edge team operates one of the biggest network infrastructures on the planet. The team manages Edge network for entire Microsoft, connecting more than 200 Edge sites and more than 60 Microsoft Azure regions across the globe. With the mission of reaching every human on the planet within 25ms, we are constantly innovating technologies to build the world’s most reliable, performant, and secure network infrastructure.

 

We are looking for a Principal Software Engineering Manager to join this team.

 

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.

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. 
  • 1+ years people management 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:

  • 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
  • 4+ years people management experience. 

 

Software Engineering M5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $137,600 - $267,000 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 $180,400 - $294,000 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:

• Single reqs: Microsoft will accept applications for the role until May 9th, 2025.

 

 

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Responsibilities

  • 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.

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