Principal Software Engineering Manager – Azure PostgreSQL

We are Azure Data, a Microsoft team that drives the future of data processing in the Microsoft Cloud. Our software development team, located in Belgrade, is building some of the most advanced and widely used data processing cloud services in the world. The services we build are based on groundbreaking technology and are global market leaders, with millions of active users, and applications ranging from small shops to large mission critical business workloads. Each service provides the benefits of automated database management: patching, backups, high-availability, security, and many more. 

Azure Database for PostgreSQL is a database service based on PostgreSQL technology, the most popular open-source DB tech in the world. Applications can enjoy the richness of PostgreSQL surface area developed by the ecosystem, such as JSONB, geospatial support, rich indexing, and dozens of extensions, while also enjoying the benefits of a fully managed cloud service: fast scaling, intelligent performance tuning, and automated security. 

We are looking for a Principal Software Engineering Manager who is enthusiastic and highly motivated to work on researching, solving deep technical problems, taking on challenges, and delivering cutting-edge market-leading software. In this role you will collaborate with some of the world's leading experts in this area of technology, and have an excellent opportunity to learn, grow and advance your career. 

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 extensive software design and full stack development experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • OR equivalent experience.
• Proven experience leading an engineering team.
• Solid experience driving architecture/design/implementation and delivery of great user experiences.
• In-depth experience with developing and maintaining cloud-scale applications and live services.
• Excellent communication and cross team collaboration skill 
• Excellent problem-solving skills 

Preferred Qualifications:

• Understanding of software engineering principles, with experience developing, architecting, and driving features and experiences for large-scale services or user-facing applications 
• Strong experience with cloud technologies (Azure/AWS/GCP)
• Experience with Linux and containers

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.

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

• Product and Service Design: 
  • Builds the right products and services to deliver intended value to the customer and to meet the required business objectives. Makes decisions deeply rooted in customer insights (data-driven) and in understanding overall business goals. 
• Technical Design and Implementation: 
  • Develops high-quality code to meet technical requirements, such as scale, global delivery, and implementation across distributed systems, monitoring, serviceability, testability, debugging and maintenance. Builds the associated tests to validate the code both at the unit level and end-to-end level.
• Quality Code and Validation: 
  • Creates and validates efficient (low-latency, high-throughput), stable, secure, maintainable, performant, well-tested, and reusable code that enables customer and business goals for the product or service. Builds the correct tests and tools to validate that the code meets quality goals or service. Ensures that quality is maintained throughout the entire life of the product or service. 
• Engineering Lifecycle: 
  • Uses, defines, and improves coding and testing practices, processes, tools, infrastructure, and standards that produce the expected product or service outcomes for Microsoft and the customers. 
• Effective Team: 
  • Acts constructively within the team context to increase the efficiency, impact, and morale of the team, as a whole. Works proactively across team, product, service, or platform boundaries to share information and technology, and ensure that peer-team goals are aligned. Mentors others and proactively seeks mentorship from others.
• Product and Service Ownership: 
  • Consistently and strongly demonstrates a sense of personal accountability for the quality and completeness of the entire product or service and resulting user experience. Maintains a sense of pride and craftsmanship that in the products that we ship. 
• Manager Priorities: 
  • Build a diverse team, develop existing employees, and recruit new talent while creating an inclusive environment with ongoing feedback to help improve performance.
  • Utilize resources for skill development, support career growth, and align teamwork with business strategy and goals.
  • Hold the team accountable for results, reward appropriately, and collaborate with other teams, modelling Microsoft values and culture.