Senior Software Engineering Manager

Azure Compute is Azure's most profitable business and is growing incredibly fast! We provide millions of virtual machines for customers to run their workload in the cloud. We are a globally available foundational service that hosts services with the scale of Bing/Skype/AzureStore/SQL, host millions of multiplayer gaming sessions and allow solving large computational problems in seconds

Azure Compute team is the “kernel” of Microsoft’s Cloud OS. We build a fault tolerant distributed system on top of commodity datacenter hardware, to deliver an infrastructure for hosting cloud applications in virtual servers. We create an illusion that resources are limitless, infinitely elastic, and always available.

Azure Compute Fleet is an offering that gives you accelerated access to Azure's capacity across regions. Compute Fleet launches a combination of tens of thousands of virtual machines (VMs) at the lowest price and highest capacity across regions. Azure Compute Fleet also allows customers to manage their fleet capacity in an effective way to save on cost. To achieve this, Azure Compute Fleet integrates with multiple services and advanced data science and ML prediction models.
If you’re interested in attacking hard technical problems and driving innovation in an area that has huge potential for impact on the company’s future, then this is THE position for you

As a Senior Software Engineering Manager in on this team, you will lead the Azure Compute Fleet team. You will lead a team of engineers building and growing a product partnering with our customers and partners and providing greater intelligence and choices to customers when accessing the Azure capacity across regions.

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.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 3+ years of experience in Object-Oriented Programming and common Design Patterns.
• 3+ years of Experience with multithreading and asynchronous processing.
• 3+ years of experience building distributed systems
• 3+ years of experience with CI/CD pipeline using agile practices.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 2+ years people management experience Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR Bachelor'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
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 2+ years people management experience.
• Extensive software engineering experience, including building large-scale distributed systems.
• Proven track record of delivering high-quality, customer-focused products.
• Skilled in fostering cross-team collaboration to develop innovative solutions.
• Experienced in growing people and teams through modeling, coaching, and showing genuine care.
  
   

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.

Software Engineering M4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $117,200 - $229,200 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 $153,600 - $250,200 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   

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• Coaches teams and drives identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.
• Coaches team members within the team in producing extensible and maintainable code. Involved in code reviews.
• Coaches team to drive multiple group's project plans, release plans, and work items in coordination with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers).
• Coaches others and acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and guides other engineers across products, working on call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions.
• Seeks new knowledge that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale and shares knowledge with other engineers.
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