Principal Software Engineering manager

Do you have experience managing a team of engineers to deliver highly secure, highly scalable, and mission critical services? Do you enjoy leading innovations and cultural transformation? Do you enjoy being part of a diverse and inclusive global team that has a broad Microsoft and industry level impact? If yes, then we have an excellent opportunity for you.

If you are looking for challenges and opportunities to building world class services, look no further and join us. We are looking for a strong Senior Engineering Manager to build and lead a team that will contribute to architecting, designing, building, and running Licensing services. The IPP Global Services team is developing and operating online services both in Azure and in on-premises.

IPP Global team, which is a part of the Crypto Services organization, are responsible for services needed to license and protect Microsoft and it's partner's Intellictual Properties. We are a global team. We build and manage about 30 critical services. DevOps way. Some of our services are of extreme scale with billions of daily transactions. We are looking for a leader in oour India team who will be based out of Hyderabad and who can manage a talented team of engineers to offer Cryptographic and other functional services needed for licensing applications.

Required/Minimum Qualifications
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering or related technical discipline
• 10+ years technical product engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
o OR equivalent experience.
• 2+ years’ experience developing high scale, distributed systems on a cloud platform.
• Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills
• Ability to learn fast and self-motivated• Azure/Cloud Services experience

Preferred Qualifications
• 3+ years of managerial and mentorship experience.
• Experience architecting solutions for complex distributed systems

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 Mircrosoft 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.

• Demonstrate ownership in building and running large scale services in public cloud. Drive improvements to resiliency, latency, and product reliability, and promote engineering best practices.
• Build and lead an excellent team of software engineers.
• Coach and grow team members
• Provide technical leadership for high-scale distributed service engineering projects, from start to finish.
• Plan and prioritize work for your team, including collaborating with partner organizations.
• Establish a positive, inclusive team culture consistent with Microsoft cultural attributes, values, leadership principles and manager expectations.
• Hire, lead, mentor and retain a team of engineers.
• Deliver success via empowerment and accountability.
• Communicate complex concepts/incidents to broad audiences including executive communication.
• Partner closely with program managers to innovate and evolve products and services based on deep understanding of business and customer needs