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Microsoft Corporation Principal Software Engineering Manager in Bucharest, Romania
Azure is the fastest-growing business in Microsoft’s history and is the foundation of Microsoft’s commercial Cloud Services. We are a part of the Azure Core team that builds and manages the core platform across various services. We have an exciting opportunity for you to innovate and shape the world’s computers, and we encourage you to apply and learn more!
Our team thrives on collaboration, and you will work alongside a diverse group of individuals who welcome challenges, value lifelong learning, and flourish in a cooperative environment. We embrace inclusivity and diverse ideas – we use empathy, trust, and ownership to drive our team culture and deliver products in a quick and iterative manner. You will be working in a fast-paced environment, tackling problems that don’t have a defined solution, but require creativity and teaming to deliver meaningful business outcomes. We continuously strive for world class engineering and operational excellence.
As Principal Software Engineering Manager , you will be responsible for leading a team of highly motivated engineers in solving complex problems, driving adoption of good engineering practices and configuration distribution standard, and collaborating across groups to deliver successful outcomes. Additionally, you will be joining a talented team that invests in our people and technology for the long term. We emphasize comprehensive designs, incremental development with high quality, shipping frequently, and adapting quickly to customer feedback. Join us in pushing the boundaries of scale, reliability, availability, and efficiency.
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.
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Responsibilities
Oversees partnership with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project manager, technical lead) to determine user requirements within and across teams for multiple solutions or product lines.
Oversees teams and provides technical leadership for identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.
Optimizes, debugs, refactors, and reuses code to improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI).
Oversees teams to drive multiple group's project plans, release plans, and work items in coordination with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) across products.
Leads the resolution of complex site incidents and oversees for Designated Responsible Individuals (DRI) and directs the work of other engineers across product lines.
Keeps informed of and communicates new standards to ensure that the product development and scaling to customer requirements and applies best practices for meeting scaling needs and performance expectations and holds accountability for products that do not meet expectations.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications:
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline
Technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
OR equivalent experience.
Software engineering experience, including hands-on technical management
Experience recruiting and managing technical teams, including performance management
Experience in nurturing an engineering culture with a focus on quality and innovation.
Previous experience in collaborating across multiple teams.
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 Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
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) .