High Availability team in Microsoft 365 division is looking for a Principal Engineering Manager to lead engineers working on major storage stack transformation of Substrate backend – experimenting and delivering the next generation of storage solution and converging with Azure storage. Do you want to own design and development of new features for large scale, highly performant, highly reliable messaging storage system? Are you passionate about distributed systems, and how to build and run them at extreme scale? Are you curious, a learner, someone who seeks to be a force multiplier through your contribution?

　　If the answer to these questions is yes, then High Availability team would like to hear from you!  We develop software from the ground-up, running across thousands of servers. We build and operate the largest enterprise cloud productivity system in the world. Across products such as Exchange, Teams, and SharePoint, we power communication, sharing, search, intelligent assistance for customers, extensibility through Microsoft Graph, and now – engaging with Azure team for converging our storage solutions. Come to define, design, and deliver what enterprise cloud productivity means.

　　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.

　　In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.

　　Responsibilities

　　Lead the team of highly experienced backend software engineers, grow, retain and acquire new talent; bring clarity, creating energy, and driving results.

　　Explore new opportunities, engage with partners to define the next features and contribute to the design of large-scale distributed that will optimize backend experience, improve service resilience, improve predictability and observability of M365 distributed storage.

　　Drive project through to delivery removing obstacles as needed to ensure success.

　　Champion and drive improvements to team software engineering practices.

　　On occasion, step in and write clean, well-tested code.

　　Qualifications

　　Required/Minimum Qualifications:

　　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 Pythono OR equivalent experience.

　　3+ years of experience in leading software engineering projects and / or being a people managerOther 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 Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

　　Preferred qualifications:

　　7+ years of software design and development experience with middle tier or backend services.

　　5+ years hands on experience in any Object-Oriented coding language such as C++, C#, Java or Python or equivalent experience with C.

　　Cloud and services experience; Azure cloud experience.

　　Analytical skills with systematic and structured approach to software design.

　　Passion for building reliable and well-tested code.

　　Experience writing services and micro-services on middle- or back-end tier.

　　Ability to communicate technical details clearly.

　　Growth Mindset with a desire to learn, a tendency to embrace challenges, persist in the face of setback, see failures as essential to mastery, learn from criticism and find lessons and inspiration in the success of others.

　　Help to create a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone can bring their full and authentic self, where all voices are heard, and where we do our best work as a result.

　　Confident and articulate in expressing ideas to a mixed audience with varying views and challenges.

　　A sense of personal ownership and accountability is required, together with the ability to develop and deliver to deadlines while managing internal stakeholder expectations.

　　Self-motivated with a drive for reaching across teams and organizations to make progress collaboratively.

　　Software Engineering M5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $133,600 - $256,800 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $173,200 - $282,200 per year.

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