Principal Engineering Manager

The Microsoft AI organization (also known as WebXT) in Microsoft is several thousand software engineers working on Bing search, Edge browser, Maps, Ads, News, and other projects. As the ecosystem grew over the years, there is a fervent desire at all levels of the organization to improve and streamline engineering systems and practices to make engineers more productive and satisfied with their day-to-day work. This will include improving source control, deployment mechanism for 100s of services, standardization of build/documentation, mono repository, standard cloud workstations, standardization of machine learning experience, etc.

We want you if you can bring engineering rigor, best practices, ability to design and implement complex distributed systems and passion for engineering systems and productivity.

Required Qualifications:

• 12+ years of experience writing code (C/C++, C#, Java) for large-scale systems.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines like Azure DevOps, GitHub Workflow or equivalents.
• Familiarity with Windows and *nix operating systems.
• Experience designing storage systems in MS SQL or Cassandra or Cosmos DB or Spanner.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Practical knowledge of Azure services.
• Demonstrated engineering rigor and desire to eliminate manual work
• Knowledge of build systems – MSBuild, Bazel, etc.
• Practical machine learning with any of Pytorch, Tensorflow, TFX, Horovod, etc

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.

We are looking for someone who is passionate about managing group of Software engineers, and make this a core service for WebXT.

A suitable candidate is expected to have experience of managing and leading people towards goals.

• Design and implement distributed systems in Azure.
• Write efficient, well-tested code.
• Refactor build systems. Quickly diagnose production services.
• Develop systems and toolsets that work across multiple orchestrators, source control, and build systems (ADO and GitHub)
• Mentor engineers in the team by providing hands-on assistance, best practices, and promoting an inclusive learning environment.
• Contribute to several Open-Source projects we work with.
• Collaborate efficiently across time zones.

The team values diversity of background and perspective. We seek to learn and grow in everything we do.