Senior Software Engineering Manager

Microsoft continues to make big investments to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more.  The Developer Division is responsible for delivering the Visual Studio family of products. In a 2018 survey done by stackoverflow.com, Visual Studio & Visual Studio Code were the top 2 most popular development environments & tools.  We create modern tools & services that help a wide spectrum of developers build apps & services for a variety of platforms, including Windows, iOS, Android, Azure and many more. Read about, and try, the most recent releases of the Visual Studio family of products here: https://visualstudio.microsoft.com 

Visual Studio Marketplace is at the heart of our shared success for both Visual Studio Code and Visual Studio IDE. In addition to a web presence, there is direct integration with VS Code and VS IDE.  The scale of our service has been growing rapidly since the introduction of VS Code. We host tens of thousands of unique extensions and serve millions of users daily, allowing vastly expanded functionality and support for development in almost any language. As a key element of the developer tools ecosystem, we must adhere to the highest standards of service availability, performance, and security.   

• BE/BTech/BS or MS degree in Computer Science or equivalent field.
• 10+ years of industry experience building and shipping software using modern programming languages such as C#, C++, Java, Go or Python.
• Track record of delivering significant engineering projects across multiple ship cycles.
• At least 4 years of experience in people management.
• Demonstrated history of leading successful engineering teams that work well together.
• Strong technical and problem-solving skills.
• Customer obsession and passion for shipping high quality products.
• Excellent planning, execution, and communication skills.

Preferred:

• Experience working in a Linux environment and/or with open source projects 
• Experience building and shipping a large-scale cloud service is a big plus 
• Experience with cloud infrastructure such as Azure, AWS or GCP 
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and DevOps tools and processes 
• Experience working with geo-distributed engineering teams and XFN partners 
• Experience in site-reliability engineering practices and supporting scalable live site services 
• Experience growing and mentoring engineers 

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. 

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

• Lead, hire, and grow a diverse world-class team of software engineers.
• Lead delivery for a highly scalable cloud native service working with engineers and peer teams.
• Partner with product management, partners, customers, and other stakeholders to define requirements, scope projects and ship products in rapid, iterative cycles.
• Stay up to date on industry trends around web development, testing, cloud native technologies, OSS and dev ops processes, mentoring team on innovation, modern design, and service engineering.
• Support customers and live site in a dev ops model.
• Build for security, privacy, scale, reliability, and compliance.
• Lead others by exemplifying growth mindset, inclusiveness, teamwork, and customer obsession.
• Mentor, coach and grow engineers while modeling care, respect, and inclusiveness.