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Microsoft Corporation Principal Software Engineering Manager in Redmond, Washington
Microsoft Teams is the fastest growing product within Microsoft. If you are excited about being part of this growing team and want to tackle problems on a vast scale, then look no further than Microsoft Teams. We are looking for a Principal Software Engineering Manager to spearhead an engineering team towards designing and adapting solutions that leverage innovative technologies to deliver the next evolution in collaboration and teamwork, all while being part of a vibrant, inclusive, and supportive work environment.
The Teams Telemetry client Instrumentation team empowers critical business metrics for Microsoft stakeholders while empowering the product to make data driven decisions. Our team is committed to driving innovation tooling, implementing automation, and leveraging advanced artificial intelligence (AI) solutions to provide quality telemetry signals.
As a Principal Software Engineering Manager on this team, you will manage a technical team to develop client solutions that are responsible for ensuring telemetry data governance, controlling telemetry cost of goods sold (COGS) and providing insightful data for our data engineers and feature teams.
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
Lead and coach a growing team of software engineers; create clarity, communicate teams' vision, strategy and progress to peers, partners and senior leaders; provide guidance, hands-on assistance, best practices and trainings, establishes team culture with emphasis on customer focus and engineering agility, removing barriers and enabling the team to be productive.
Effectively lead architectural reviews, planning and execution processes, creating robust engineering plans. Make timely decisions to meet security, reliability, quality and shipping goals.
Consistently identify, reward and manage growth and help all team members achieve the most in their careers.
Build a team with diverse viewpoints and capabilities needed to achieve business objectives.
Find opportunities for collaboration across teams even geographically distributed including program management, contribute on cross-team commitments, and achieve scale by enabling the work of others.
Translate business requirements into a strategy for systems solutions, derive data driven insights, building experiences that empower users to do more.
Lead the continuous improvement of engineering and quality practices. Work across business groups to ensure the long-term integrity of a product area.
Embody our Culture and Values (https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/culture) .
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.
Experience designing and building highly available distributed systems at scale.
3+ years of experience in data pipeline and/or telemetry systems.
Experience building, managing and/or leading a team of Software Engineers.
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:
3+ years experience as tech lead or mentoring early in career employees.
Experience with agile methodologies.
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: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/us-corporate-pay.html)
Microsoft will accept applications for the role until October 14, 2024.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html) .