Principal Software Engineering Manager

Do you see yourself as a coach, a guide, a collaborator, and an engineer? Would you be excited to drive major changes to a high scale service that is critical to the company? Do you care deeply about fostering a team culture? We are looking for an Principal Software Engineering Manager for the M365 Vietnam Team who embraces these roles and is excited by the technical challenges that come with building and scaling storage services.

Substrate is the data and intelligence platform that enables internal partner teams at Microsoft to build, deploy, and maintain compliant productivity apps and services with reduced effort and faster time to market. The M365 Vietnam Team owns critical Substrate components including protocols. We work closely with partners across M365 to enable critical suite-wide scenarios.

As a Principal Software Engineering Manager, you will model technical and service excellence and embraces Microsoft cultural values of inclusion and caring to help drive the following outcomes:

Coach – Work with each person on your team to help them to do their work and grow. Define and foster an identity for the team that includes a reputation for high quality, reliability, and inclusivity.

Guide – Define the business goals for the team then create and execute on a plan to meet those goals. Build a vision for changing the underlying technology of the service and guide the team through landing it while maintaining the availability of the live site. 

Collaborate – Strive to understand the motivations and goals of the teams we’re working with and work towards a better solution together. 

Engineer – Care deeply about the availability, resilience, scalability, and cost of the critical 99.99% service we are running.

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 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • OR equivalent 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 12+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript,
  • OR Python
  • OR Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 10+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 10+ years of experience building commercial grade software, with much of that experience in mission-critical, large scale, high availability services.
• 6+ years people management experience.
• Cloud and services experience; Azure cloud experience.
• Analytical skills with systematic and structured approach to software design.
• Passion for building reliable and well-tested code.
• Experience writing services and micro-services on front-, middle- or back-end tier.

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.

• Lead and support a team of software engineers in the Vietnam to deliver high quality business objectives.
• Collaborate closely with an integrated remote team in Suzhou, China: work with a peer Engineering Manager to define joint goals execution plan.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership: architecture, design, code reviews, development, quality assurance and live site.
• Drive modern engineering practices such as continuous integration, unit testing, automated deployments with integrated quality gates.
• Partner with Product Management to meet immediate and longer-term business objectives.
• Collaborate with teams across the company in Office and Azure.
• Hire, retain, and grow top talent.
• Foster a healthy and inclusive team environment.
• Be a mentor for the people on your team and help them grow.