Principal Software Engineering Manager

As a Principal Software Engineering Manager in our team, you will be making technical, operational, planning, and strategic contributions to our real-time platform in support of our growing business. This opportunity will allow you to hone your skills building systems that operate at high scale, high availability, low latency, and high cardinality. You will have opportunities to develop deep business understanding of existing and future advertising practices. You'll work directly with high accomplished teams and engineers that drive performance and innovation at the cutting edge. You will be responsible for career development of direct reports, and contribute to a thriving culture in our larger team. Our team is globally distributed which provides flexible and partial remote work opportunities.

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.

• Guides partnership with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project manager, technical lead, product owners, and commercial partners) to determine requirements within and across teams.
• Guides teams and leads 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).
• Guides team to drive multiple group's project plans, release plans, and work items in coordination with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers).
• Guides team and acts as an expert for Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and monitors other engineers across product lines, working on call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions.
• 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.
• Brings strong engineering practices and processes, excels at operating and supporting high volume and highly critical business systems on a global scale, acts as an engineering role model who brings strong C and Unix experience in building distributed systems, and mentors and develops other engineers in the team on all aspects of world class software development.