Principal Software Engineering Manager - Azure Core

Microsoft is a leading technology company focused on empowering individuals and organizations. The Software Engineering Manager in Azure Host Networking will lead teams to deliver software-defined networking capabilities, optimizing and driving projects while ensuring high performance and scalability of products.

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

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 equivalent experience
• 4+ years people management experience
• 4+ years of experience in systems software development and knowledge of computer networking protocols such as TCP/IP
• 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 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 equivalent experience