Principal Software Engineering Manager

Microsoft is a leading technology company, and they are seeking a Principal Software Engineering Manager to lead the Azure Boost Solid-State Drive team. This role involves designing and delivering innovative storage solutions, mentoring a high-performing engineering team, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to enhance Azure's storage stack.

Responsibilities:

• Lead design and delivery of next gen Azure Boost SSDs for higher performance, availability and improved COGS
• Lead and mentor team to develop speeds and feeds into next gen PCIe and Silicon platform
• 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 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

Requirements:

• 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++, or Rust OR equivalent experience
• 4+ years of experience in developing cloud scale production software
• 4+ years of experience with storage, NVMe, PCIe and system design, algorithmic and problem-solving skills
• 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
• 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++, or Rust 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++, or Rust OR equivalent experience
• 10+ years of experience designing, building and running large scale and highly available cloud services or distributed systems
• 10+ years of experience working in Kernel Mode Drivers, Storage solutions
• 4+ years people management experience