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Microsoft has an exciting opportunity for a Principal Software Engineer Manager to lead engineering teams responsible for developing, deploying, operating, and continuously improving Azure services within Microsoft Specialized Clouds. This role sits at the intersection of cloud platform engineering, live site operations, and regulated cloud delivery, supporting mission critical Azure products in environments. As a people manager and technical leader, this role owns end to end service accountability—from design and deployment through live site reliability, operational excellence, and customer impact. The manager will guide teams delivering capabilities across specialized cloud environments, ensuring service parity, reliability, and operational readiness while honoring unique regulatory constraints.
Job Responsibility:
Leads team on the disciplined use of, and improving artificial intelligence (AI) tools and practices across the software development lifecycle (SDLC)
Reviews debugging tools, tests, logs, telemetry, and other methods, and acts as an expert for others to proactively verify assumptions while developing code
Guides team within and across teams on producing extensible, maintainable, well-tested, secure, and performant code
Guides team in creating clear test strategy that ensures solution quality
Guides teams on and leads identifying dependencies and incorporating them into the development of design documents
Guides others on owning and leading efforts and discussions for architecture of aspects of complex products/solutions
Guides team on leading the identification of requirements for, and the comprehensive application of automation within production and deployment across products
Identifies and acts as an expert in best practices and shares information with other engineers for building code that is based on well-established methods and secure design principles
Guides team on understanding and applying security best practices and establishes code invariants to model "security as code"
Guides the decision-making process around tool development
Leads team in collaborating with partner teams to ensure a set of products works well with the components of the partner team
Guides team and leads efforts to ensure the correct processes are followed to achieve a high degree of security, privacy, safety, and accessibility across solutions and teams
Guides team on driving multiple groups' project plans, release plans, and work items in coordination with appropriate stakeholders
Acts as an expert to others for deployment appropriate environments, and about automating deployment tasks when possible to ensure efficiency
Leveraging internal experimentation infrastructures, acts as an expert and guides team experiments that determine the effectiveness of changes using feature flags/flighting in their code
Managers deliver success through empowerment and accountability by modeling, coaching, and caring
Ensures ongoing support for services or products are robust and effective through effective telemetry and incident response processes and adhering to security best practices
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
Integrates, designs, and reviews others work across a team or product to integrate logging and instrumentation for gathering telemetry data on system behavior
Acts as an expert for others' operations of live site service and following security best practices when responding quickly to mitigate complex issues
Guides partnership with appropriate internal and external stakeholders and leverages expertise to determine and confirm customer/user requirements and their feasibility within and across teams
Requirements:
Bachelor'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 equivalent experience
Active U.S. Government Top Secret Clearance with access to Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) based on a Single Scope Background Investigation (SSBI) with Polygraph
U.S. citizenship
Ability to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter
Nice to have:
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++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 12+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience