Azure Cognitive Search is looking for an engineering manager who is passionate about expanding the possibilities of how Search and AI can empower developers in Azure to deliver next generation experiences. In this role, you'll be leading a team focused on enhancing our vector support capabilities for AI Search . AI Search is Azure's Search-as-a-Service offering that delivers a highly scalable search backend enhanced with AI powered content and query understanding which enables advanced search and knowledge mining scenarios. In your new role you'll be helping us research, design and deliver new product capabilities, building cloud scale distributed systems, designing advanced release tooling, live site infrastructure, and new tooling to support the rapid growth of our global presence.

　　The Azure AI Search team is highly collaborative, data-oriented, and greatly values diversity of thought and ideas. As a team we have a strong track record of building industrial strength services infused with AI and used by tens of thousands of customers across the world. We are proud of what we build and how we build it and that our product powers numerous applications in this AI era. We run lean, obsess about customers, and use an evidence-based approach to decision making. We ship new bits continuously, so your work will impact customers in a few days, not months or years.

　　Our team consists of people from a wide variety of backgrounds as well as professional and life experiences. We maintain and grow that diversity what makes us better at building the best solutions for our customers while having a blast doing it! Core to our team culture is the belief that you must have a ‘people-first’ approach to sustainably building and running 24x7 cloud services.

　　This means we support each other to build things the right way, enjoy our vacation time, and take advantage of our paid parental leave!

　　Responsibilities

　　Build and lead a team of software engineers which includes driving project planning, prioritization of work, and designing features

　　Support, mentor, and help engineers grow building an inclusive team environment where everyone can deliver their best work

　　Lead the design and implementation of core search service capabilities that are scalable, highly-available, compliant, and deployed globally

　　Advocate for and maintain a culture of high-quality software development with focus on efficient DevOps, customer support processes and automation

　　Analyze telemetry and usage data to inform product decisions and troubleshoot issues

　　Work with diverse opinions and negotiate solutions balancing customer requirements and business goals

　　Qualifications

　　Required Qualifications:

　　8+ years of programming experience in C# OR Java OR C++ OR object-oriented programming

　　4+ years of people manager or technical lead experience

　　Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering or Mathematics or Physics or IT technical discipline or 10+ years of experience developing and shipping software products

　　Preferred Qualifications:

　　Background or experience in building and designing platform services

　　Proven track record of forming, mentoring, and growing strong engineering teams

　　Demonstrated openness to feedback and effectiveness at collaborating with diverse groups of people

　　Demonstrated independence, bias for action, and tolerance for ambiguity

　　Excellent organization, prioritization, and communication skills

　　Experience building and using cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP)

　　Experience in building and using other search products (Elasticsearch, etc)

　　Proven experience in defining the roadmap, strategy, and go-to-market plans for a cloud service

　　Experience in SQL dialects, PowerShell, or automation experience

　　Background or experience in advanced search domains such as analytics and monitoring

　　Background in running services on Linux is plus

　　Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html) .