The Opportunity More than ever before cloud services are transforming the way word does business. As you’ve probably heard, Microsoft is committed to being cloud – first, and with several multi-billion dollar services already serving the needs of individuals and organizations well over the globe, the opportunity to shape the future has never been greater! Microsoft’s enterprise cloud services are some of the most rapidly growing and strategically important segments in our company.  

The Office 365 Enterprise cloud team runs a mission critical cloud service for many of the largest organization in the world, including many fortune 500 companies as well as federal, state and local government organizations globally. We provide distributed, scalable, highly reliable service for millions of people. As you might expect, customers of this nature have the highest expectations around enterprise features, regulatory compliance, reliability and availability and of course about the security of our service.  

Responsibilities

We’re looking for a fearless and innovative technical leader who’s passionate about increasing Office's daily and monthly usage and retention to join us and drive us to the next level of business success by getting the sapps that matter to people at work, at school and at home integrated with our platform, both on the cloud and on mobile.  

Our engineering team tackles a wide variety of problems, from networking to advanced graphics handling to leading edge UI design to insight mining from telemetry on Android. The candidate can expect to build a wide range of skills and experiences in this role. The candidate should have experience in all phases of the development cycle, preferably on large-scale commercial products including collaborating across the groups and cross discipline with Design, PM and our partner teams.  

This leader is expected to lead the team with an approach that embraces and extends the industry best practices for software engineering.The team today is agile, shipping monthly, eager to learn, and willing to try new ways of working. The Engineering Manager will be expected to lead the team towards a solid vision of the agile and cross-platform engineering, be responsible for a solid architecture and amazing performance and quality, manage a great team, and remove any and all obstacles that are preventing the team from delivering as fast as they can. He must be self-driven, proactive, results-oriented and have the ability to work with minimal ongoing direction  

  

Qualifications

Qualifications  

• BS degree in computer science, engineering or equivalent degree 
• 8+ years of software development experience with C, C++ or Java
• Proven track record as a strong and effective engineering leader -managing and growing successful teams
• Strong customer focusand passion for doing the right thing for the customer 
• Proven ability to establish trusted, effective relationships across diverse sets of stakeholders
• Excellent communication skills and cross group collaboration
• Ability to quickly pick up existing concepts and employ new techniques and strong problem solving 

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.