Azure Storage team is chartered with building, managing, and running the persistent cloud storage for Microsoft Azure cloud. We are one of the foundational services in the Azure Cloud and host data from some of the largest companies in the world plus all of Microsoft’s largest online businesses including Xbox, Teams, and Bing.

Azure Cloud has one of the highest number of data centers amongst all the cloud providers. Azure Storage, which is a massively scalable, highly distributed, ubiquitously accessible storage system, is designed to scale out and serve the entire world with hundreds of thousands of devices in our data centers across the world. This role provides a unique opportunity to work on both software and hardware optimizations that will help drive the scale of Azure Storage to the next level. If you like the challenges of large-scale distributed systems, love to work on new projects where you can define the work, scope, direction, and architect new solutions to make an impact on a massive product like Azure storage, this could be position for you! You will have an opportunity to make high impact changes on a daily basis as you build a hyperscale storage system that may indirectly or directly be used daily by of your friends and family. 

We are looking for a Principal Engineering Manager who would help build and lead a strong team. You will be working on the cutting edge of distributed systems and high scale storage on some of the largest storage systems on the planet, solving the interesting challenges that come with high scale, rapid growth, and continued innovations. You would be leading a talented, highly collaborative team, with responsibility for engineering the most fundamental layers of the Azure storage service. In addition, you will be helping provide technical leadership to the team and help with cross team initiatives. The role brings exposure to cutting edge storage, memory, networking, and distributed system technologies, with broad opportunity to influence both the business and the industry.

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. 

Responsibilities

• Manage the team: Attract and retain talent while supporting the growth and career development of team members 

• Create a team culture of quality first mentality that directly contributes to service resiliency capabilities as part of the stack. 

• Research and deep-dive into technical issues and bring clarity to the team as needed 

• Own planning and ensure top deliverables are met for the success of Microsoft, Azure Storage, and the team 

• Contribute to the technical direction and approach alongside other managers across geo locations. 

• Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and guides other engineers by developing and following the playbook, working on call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions, alerting stakeholders about status and initiates actions to restore system/product/service for simple and complex problems when appropriate 

Qualifications

*Required Qualifications: *

• Eperience managing a team of engineers by setting clear expectations, keeping team members energized, and delivering great results.

• Software engineering experience, including delivering highly available cloud-based services and platforms.

• Experience in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting distributed systems.

• Minimum of a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Design, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent alternative education, skills, and/or practical experience.

*Preferred Qualifications: *

• Prior hands-on development experience including leading architecture for large scale system, designing, and writing code, experience in coding in C++ or C#.

• Prior experience and/or subject matter expertise in REST, service reliability, Network Security, Encryption and Authentication.

• Prior experience and/or subject matter expertise in Storage or File-Systems, Networking, Distributed Systems, Operating Systems and/or Applications at scale.

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.

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