Are you looking to make a real difference in Microsoft’s mission to empower every person and organization to achieve more, with the power of cloud computing? Do you want to work at the forefront of Cloud Computing to design, deliver and operate cloud-scale systems that are the foundation of the World’s Computer which is Azure? Do you want to be part of a highly motivated and passionate team that works together to do what it takes for our customers to be successful while having fun and learning along the way?

Azure Core is Azure's most profitable business and growing incredibly fast! We, the Azure Core Compute team in IDC, pride ourselves in working without boundaries to deliver the cloud platform capable of running any customer application/workload. And we mean ANY! Think of any large Microsoft service; Teams, Bing, Exchange, Xbox, SQL Azure, Office 365, HDInsight, COSMOS DB…. or customers such as Accenture, Adobe, Walgreens, Walmart, Flipkart, In-Mobi and the multitude of the large/medium/small shopping, banking, finance, gaming, logistics, enterprises, data analytics/management, storage services of the world. They run on infrastructure we build.

As the owners of the platform that runs such a diversity of applications, we need to guarantee quality of service (QoS) for our customers. Metrics like uptime/availability/reliability and service performance take on a new meaning at the scale we operate. Our customers want 5 9’s+ of availability, transparent maintenance and updates to their systems, resiliency of their workloads despite hardware (H/W) and system failures that happen all the time in the datacentre, ability to deploy & dynamically scale large number of VMs/containers reliably. Ensuring the quality of service (QoS) at scale requires us to architect and build systems across all layers and we work on architectural improvements across the entire Azure Core stack (Azure Compute Manager, Azure Host OS and Host Agent, Compute Resource Provider, Azure Networking etc) to achieve the SLAs.

As a Principal Engineering Manager you will help realize the team’s vision to “Build and operate world class E-E engineering systems & services that contribute to measurable improvements in the experience for our customers & quality of the platform and scales with the growth/complexity of Azure Core systems”. ​Achieving this vision is critical for the success of the Azure platform and guaranteeing quality of service (QoS) for our customers.The focus for this role is on building the infrastructure to emulate Azure platform services, plug and play real & emulated services in a production like environment and validate quality of service (QoS) in high concurrency, high scale, and fault tolerance scenarios. This is next gen infrastructure that we believe is critical for delivering a quality platform for some of our largest customers.

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

• Build, deploy, and operate world-class services that will validate, observe, and measure the quality of components in all layers of the Azure Core stack.

• Bring clarity, create energy, and drive results – you’ll set a vision, rally the team behind it, and deliver for our customers.

• Demonstrate the Microsoft manager attributes of coach, model, and care with the engineers on your team, so they all learn, grow, and succeed.

• Plan and prioritize work for your team, including collaborating with partner organizations.

• Create an inclusive environment that attracts and retains high-performing engineers.

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

• 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.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

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

• 2+ years experience managing teams and/or a strong passion to model/coach/care and make others successful

• Experience in building, deploying, and operating reliable systems preferably with experience in distributed systems fundamentals

• Ability to

• Write and debug code which requires good understanding of threading and asynchronous programming fundamentals

• AND engage in site-reliability engineering practices.

Other Qualifications:

• 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:

• Experience with or understanding of CI/CD pipelines & ADO Experience developing software hosted in Azure, AWS, or other similar Cloud platforms.

• Data driven approach to solving problems iteratively and measuring success. Commitment to collaboration and teamwork and ability to deliver via influence.

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