Principal Software Engineering Lead

Key Skills

Agile methodologies, API, AWS, Azure, Big Data Technology, C# Programming, Continuous Integration & Continuous Delivery - CI/CD, Data Analytics, Data pipelines, DevOps, Github, Java Programming, JavaScript, Leadership, logo, Python Programming, SQL

Job Description

The Commercial Software Engineering (CSE) team is a global engineering organization that works directly with customers, leveraging the latest technologies to address their toughest challenges. We work closely with our customers’ engineers to jointly develop code for cloud-based solutions that can accelerate their organization. We work in collaboration with Microsoft product teams, delivery teams, partners, and open-source communities to empower our customers to do more with the cloud. We pride ourselves on making contributions to open source and making our platforms easier to use.

We are hiring a Principal Software Engineering Lead with experience managing an engineering team and expertise in designing and delivering solutions using modern software engineering practices and cloud technologies. With your team, you will be working side-by-side with high-impact and strategic customers and their engineers to build innovative solutions. As part of our team, you will thrive in working with a variety of technologies, not just Microsoft technology.? You will solve exciting business problems, contribute to open source, and collaborate with Microsoft product teams. You will mentor and coach engineers on your team sharing your expertise and learning from them too.

Our team prides itself on embracing a growth mindset, inspiring excellence, and encouraging everyone to share their unique viewpoints and be their authentic selves. Join us and help create life-changing innovations that impact billions around the world! 

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Responsibilities

• Managing and leading a team of 6 to 8 software engineers
• Working hands-on with your team and our customers through design and implementation, setting examples for good engineering practices and coding along the way
• Giving thoughtful feedback, nurturing an inclusive engineering environment, championing engineering fundamentals, and providing clarity and mentorship for team members to grow 
• Mentoring team members to drive excellence in engineering as a cohesive, efficient, and productive unit?
• Exhibiting technical leadership throughout the broader CSE organization, with the Microsoft product teams, delivery teams, and the OSS community
• Collaborate with delivery teams and customers’ engineers to deliver Azure cloud solutions for healthcare, adapting to the customer’s development tools and languages and establishing engineering best practices such as PR/CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code, logging, monitoring etc.?
• Continuously improving our ability to deliver quality solutions by evolving engineering processes and technical capabilities

Qualifications

Required:

• 10+ years of experience shipping or running production systems and/or software written with one or more of these languages – C#, Python, Java, Go, JavaScript
• 3+ years of cloud experience building large-scale distributed systems and APIs, preferably on Azure, AWS, or Google cloud
• 2+ years of direct people management experience

 Preferred:

• A good working knowledge of agile software development methodologies and tools such as Azure DevOps, GitHub, or others
• Experience with one or more of these technologies – containers, serverless, modern data stores, big data analytics
• Experience working with external customers
• Effective communication and collaboration skills?
• Demonstrated ability to quickly learn new languages and technologies
• A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related discipline or comparable practical experience
• Comfortable with travel to meet customers for 3 – 4 days every 2 months

At Microsoft, we are seeking people who have a passion for the positive impact technology can have on communities and for making a difference in the world. Within CSE, you will find a wide range of backgrounds, perspectives, personal and cultural experiences which are vital to our success with our customers. It’s an informal and flexible work environment and you’ll be welcome to work in the way that best enables you to get your job done.

We invest in your health,?wellness,?and financial future by offering a competitive package including a wide range of benefits built around your personal needs and those close to you.?

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