Principal Software Engineering Manager
Redmond, WA 
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Posted 11 days ago
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OverviewThe Azure Core organization provides the fundamental building blocks that the rest of Azure, and hence many Microsoft and customer services are built off. This consists of well-known primitives such as networking, compute and storage, but also bare-metal and utility services which enables Azure to scale in a cohesive and reliable way.Each of the service teams are responsible for their own security, with the Azure Core Security Engineering team partnering cross-service, spanning the organization, to identify, build, and deliver security solutions such as "secure by default", "enhanced logging and detection", and "micro-segmentation". As a Principal Software Engineering Manager, in the Azure Core Security Engineering team you'll have the opportunity to work broadly across Azure, with world-class engineers, improving security not just internally but for customers as well. 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.
ResponsibilitiesPartners with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project manager, technical lead) to determine user requirements within and across teams. Leverages a variety of feedback channels to incorporate insights into future designs or solution fixes. Guides incorporation of appropriate continuous feedback loops measuring customer value, usage patterns, and other actionable metrics of value. Begins to determine additional critical metrics.Guides others through efforts and discussions for architecture of aspects of products/solutions (e.g., design, cost). Creates proposals for architecture and design documents, and leads testing of hypotheses and proposed solutions. Shares and acts on findings from investigations and owns design decisions and oversees the less experienced team members. Guides others and writes documents for designs or User Stories and determines the technology that will be leveraged and how they will interact. Leads design discussions with the team and shares findings/learnings from investigations, owns design decisions. Guides employees to consider, and leads efforts to assure system architecture meets security and compliance requirements and expectations.Directs team with the generation and implementation of multiple group's project plans, release plans, and work items in coordination with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers). Breaks down very long-term project vision into milestones. Guides to other members for project estimation. Anticipates future goals to guide future resources. Reviews, implements, and recommends updates to resource management in response to changing context.Coaches team within and across teams in producing extensible, and maintainable code. Optimizes, debugs, refactors, and reuses code to improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI). Identifies best practices and coding patterns and provides deep expertise on the coding and validation strategy. Defines or reuses quality metrics, best practices, and coding patterns to ensure testable code. Leads by example in code-writing practices.Identifies and acts as an expert in best practices and shares information with other engineers to reliably build code that is based on well-established methods while also applying best practices for new code development. Maintains an up-to-date understanding and advises engineering teams on both global and local regulations for technologies and system applications to ensure regulations are followed and met. Leads 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.OtherEmbody our Culture & Values

 

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