Azure Compute is the core of our cloud platform and is growing incredibly fast. The platform manages millions of compute cores for customers in Azure and on-premises. We are a globally available foundational service that hosts other high scale services in Azure. We have numerous exciting opportunities across different areas to grow the capabilities and scale of our platform by orders of magnitude. The engineers have opportunity to do deep distributed systems development while also being able to influence scenarios and work with customers. Our team fosters collaborative environment and builds upon one-another's ideas, to deliver world-class customer value at a rapid pace. We empower engineers to deliver creative solutions through bottoms-up innovation. This is a fun environment and a wonderful opportunity to work on something highly strategic to Microsoft and extremely relevant in the industry.

Responsibilities

As a Software Engineering Manager, you will lead a team of software engineers who are designing, coding, validating, shipping, and running high scale services. You will have the opportunity to use your technical experience to shape the product and its customer experience. If you are excited by Cloud Computing, willingness to learn in an ever-changing environment and above all love to focus on customers and building products they love – we want to hear from you!

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional experience designing, developing, and shipping high quality software services
• 1+ years of technical leadership experience
• 2+ years hands-on experience with distributed systems and services in the cloud

Preferred Qualifications:

• 5+ years of coding using C#, Java, C++, Golang or C
• 2+ years of hands-on experience with Kubernetes
• Experience with agile software development
• Ability to track multiple projects through completion and deal with ambiguity
• Experience with using or developing with infrastructure-as-code framework.
• Excellent interpersonal skills; solid written and oral communication skills
• Proven ability troubleshooting complex technical issues for running online services in remote datacenters

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.

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.