Software Engineering Manager - Azure Core

Microsoft

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

Join us. Make an impact. We are the Sky team and have the mandate and opportunity to: Empower Microsoft Cloud teams and their customers to easily deliver high-quality services using standard cloud architecture and infrastructure. We understand that driving meaningful impact means empowering and enabling our customers to achieve more. Driven by customer needs, we are fueling investments in standardized cloud architecture and infrastructure to build a solid foundation that gives customers an excellent experience with our products. Our portfolio includes projects that span the entirety of Microsoft’s cloud ecosystem. You will partner on projects across different areas like containerization, security, large-scale distributed systems, reliability, distributed computing, observability, etc. Sky is a talented, diverse, and supportive organization that celebrates development and learning. We pride ourselves on embracing a growth mindset to pursue technical excellence. We value collaboration and craftsmanship to drive results that move the needle for our customers. We engineer elegant solutions to complex problems. We encourage an informal and flexible work environment, and you are welcome to work from home, or in our offices - wherever you can do your best work. As a Software Engineering Manager - Azure Core focused on the Sky team’s Kubernetes solutions, you will have the incredible opportunity to work on business-critical initiatives that directly contribute to the future of Azure’s business. You must be deeply technical, experienced with Kubernetes, and able to ramp up in new areas quickly since your responsibilities will span all areas of Azure’s business as well as all layers of the cloud technology stack. You will lead a team of software engineers as well as review and contribute to technical design and implementation of solutions to solve difficult problems within the infrastructure which enables the success of Microsoft's services. This will require working with stakeholders across Azure to define the problem, and to research, design and develop the solution. You will collaborate with teams of developers and program managers throughout the process offering opportunities to learn from and mentor others. As a manager, you will be responsible for the performance management and development of your team, short and long-term planning, and the execution and delivery of that work. 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.

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science / Engineering or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, Go, C#, C++ or Java OR equivalent experience.
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.

Nice To Haves

Master's Degree in Computer Science / Engineering or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to,Go, C#, C++ or Java OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science / Engineering or related technical field AND 12+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, Go, C#, C++ or Java OR equivalent experience.
4+ years people management experience.