Principal Engineering Manager

Microsoft 365 (M365) Intelligent Conversation and Communications Cloud is the platform that powers billions of real-time customer conversations across Teams, Skype, 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 runtime policy, settings scenarios across multiple products, and develop one of the largest scale cache, business-critical distributed systems in Microsoft.  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. 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.

Required qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND senior level technical engineering experience.  
  • OR equivalent experience.  
• Mid-level people management experience  
• Experience in developing and operating large scale backend services  

Preferred qualifications: 

• Ability to communicate technical details clearly across organizational boundaries.  
• Experience in DevOps to maintain live services and\or application frameworks.  
• Cloud and services experience, with Azure cloud experience highly desirable.  
• Excellent analytical skills with systematic and structured approach to software design.  
• Passion for building highly scalable, highly reliable services.  
• Experience with or exposure to Agile and iterative development processes.  

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.

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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 razor focus on the usage/metrics of the owned services and be super customer focus.   
• Create robust career development plans to help team members grow.   
• Lead, coach, and build a diverse, inclusive, high-performing 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, competitive, 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.