Principal Software Engineer Manager

Are you interested in building and safeguarding distributed services that can process requests at extremely low latency, in a high-scale manner, at terabits per second of traffic and millions of requests per second, across hundreds of millions of users, with extreme reliability? Are you interested in delivering a highly scalable, performant, and reliable service, that provides acceleration and protection against DDoS (distributed denial of service attacks) attacks for some of the largest services in the globe? 
 
Azure Front Door delivers a geographically distributed internet-facing set of services that provide acceleration, caching, protection, and highly customizable traffic processing. Azure Front Door is an all-encompassing charter that includes the building of Content Delivery Network (CDN), Dynamic Site Acceleration (DSA), Audio Video streaming acceleration, advanced load balancing & rapid failover, Web Application Firewall (WAF), and with many other capabilities. Azure Front Door enables our customers to take a simple backend application and expose it to the world such that the app has global footprint, low-latency, high-throughput, super-scale, fault-tolerance, security, easy management, and reduced load on the customer backend. Azure Front Door accelerates some of the largest services in the world. 
 
To succeed in this challenging landscape, we embody an engineering mindset that places immense value on building tech that is extremely reliable, highly performant, and vastly scalable; moreover, we strive to create a work environment in which you will find very friendly co-workers who are always ready to help you along the way. We live and breathe the modern software engineering culture in which a single engineer wears all the hats necessary to design, implement, validate and release. 

As a member of this team in Azure Front Door, you will be responsible for developing and operating the Web Application Firewall, building robust services for safeguarding the system at different system layers and protecting our customer services using the latest technologies across platforms. You will write and operate code that is super-scale but lightweight, maintainable, efficient, and reliable. Your work will be critical in enhancing the performance, quality, density, and reliability of the platform. 
 
So, if the thought of building rich features, aggressively squeezing compute & memory overhead in a system running with thousands of requests per second, making sure that services are always available, protecting the systems against vulnerabilities, new attack vectors and against DDoS attacks and you thrive for environment where innovation meets security this is the right opportunity for you. 

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 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, or RUST
  • OR equivalent experience
• 2+ years of people management experience

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.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor'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#, Rust
  • OR Master'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#, Rust
  • OR equivalent experience
• 4+ years of people management experience
• Experience building distributed services and managing live sites
• Experience with protocol stacks HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) and/or Network stack and OS (operating systems) internals

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.  We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. 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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