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Microsoft Corporation Principal Software Engineering Manager in Redmond, Washington
Microsoft 365 (M365) Intelligent Conversation and Communications Cloud (IC3) is the platform that powers billions of real-time customer conversations across Microsoft’s first-party (Teams, Skype), second-party (Dynamics), and third-party solutions (through Azure Communication Services). The platform enables reliable and high-quality messaging, meeting, and audio/video calling services that work every time, from anywhere, seamlessly across all customer touchpoints. Conversations on our platforms are made more intelligent in real-time, empowering best-in-class productivity tools for the modern workplace where every call, meeting, or chat will make the next one better.
We are the team behind all the messaging scenarios across multiple products, and develop one of the largest scale, business-critical distributed systems in Microsoft. Our services run in 25+ regions, and we process billions of messages a day, enabling hundreds of millions of active enterprise as well as consumer users. The micro services are highly scalable, highly available, and extremely performant in geo-redundant, multi-tenant systems and honor data sovereignty, privacy, security, and compliance. As a Principal Software Engineering Manager, you will have an opportunity to work with a highly collaborative and fun team in a fast-learning environment.
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
As a key member of our mission-focused, multi-disciplinary team, you will:
Foster and develop talented engineers capable of developing and running scalable, reliable, maintainable services.
Keep a focus on the usage/metrics of the owned services and be customer focused.
Create robust career development plans to help team members grow.
Lead, coach, and build a diverse, inclusive, team where all team members can do their best work.
Help the team plan and execute technical deliverables.
Work closely with our external partners to support the team’s mission.
Collaborate closely with teams within Microsoft to leverage the best technology to advance the team’s mission.
Bring your curiosity, entrepreneurial spirit, and passion to deliver on the promise of technology in a difficult and exciting vertical.
Gain a working understanding of Microsoft as a business and collaborate with mentors and leaders to contribute to cohesive, end-to-end experiences for our users.
Focus on customer/partner needs through a data driven approach.
Embody our Culture (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/about/corporate-values) 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#, Java or Python
OR equivalent experience
3+ years of people management experience in the technical space
4+ years designing, developing, and operating backend services
Preferred Qualifications:
4+ years experience in DevOps to maintain live services and\or application frameworks, as well as Cloud and services experience, with Azure cloud experience highly desirable
4+ years analytical skills with systematic and structured approach to software design and a passion for building highly scalable, highly reliable services
4+ years experience with or exposure to Agile and iterative development processes
Ability to communicate technical details clearly across organizational boundaries
Software Engineering M5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $133,600 - $256,800 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 $173,200 - $282,200 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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