Principal Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, or related technical discipline AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.
• 4 years of people management experience.
• Experience in Systems Design and Architecture review

• Software Engineering and with an AI background.
• Development of tools/capabilities using AI.
• Background of rapid product prototyping (demonstrated experimentation).
• 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 background and Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

• The Identity engineering organization is looking for an individual with experiences in:
• People management (Manager delivering success through empowerment and accountability by modeling, coaching, and caring as per Microsoft’s Culture)
• Understanding user requirements (Guides partnership with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., product manager, technical lead) to determine user requirements within and across teams.
• Design – Guides others through efforts and discussions for architecture of aspects of products/solutions (e.g., design, cost). Creates proposals for architecture and design documents and leads testing of hypotheses and proposed solutions. Shares and acts on findings from investigations and owns design decisions and oversees the less experienced team members. Guides others and writes documents for designs or User Stories and determines the technology that will be leveraged and how they will interact. Leads design discussions with the team and shares findings/learnings from investigations, owns design decisions.
• Coding – Guides team within and across teams in producing extensible, and maintainable code. Optimizes, debugs, refactors, and reuses code to improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI). Identifies best practices and coding patterns and provides deep expertise on the coding and validation strategy. Defines or reuses quality metrics, best practices, and coding patterns to ensure testable code. Leads by example in code-writing practices.
• Implement – Guides team to drive multiple group’s project plans, release plans, and work items in coordination with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers).
• Reliability and Supportability – Acts as an expert for others' operations of live service as complex issues arise on a rotational, on-call basis. Reviews systematic issues and ensure solutions. Ensures playbooks are logical and understandable. Establishes standardized processes and guides others that implement solutions and mitigations to issues impacting performance or functionality of Live Site services. Reviews and writes complex issues postmortem and shares insights across teams.
• Engineering Excellence – Guides the decision-making process around tool development. Oversees resourcing of tool development and reuse within the team. Ensures the team uses open sources and reuses them as applicable. Guides others, builds, enhances, reuses, contributes to, and identifies new software developer tools to support other programs and applications to create, debug, and maintain code for products. Uses open source when possible. Begins to develop skills in other tools outside areas of expertise. Guides others and identifies internal tools and creates new tools that will be useful for creating the product, determining if methods are still applicable for the current solution. Shares best practices and teaches others about new tools and strategies

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