Senior Software Engineering Manager

Azure Compute is Azure's most profitable business and is growing incredibly fast!

We provide millions of virtual machines for customers to run their workload in the cloud. We are a globally available foundational service that hosts services with the scale of Bing/Skype/AzureStore/SQL, host millions of multiplayer gaming sessions and allow solving large computational problems in seconds

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineering Manager for Azure Core. Azure Compute team is the “kernel” of Microsoft’s Cloud OS. We build a fault tolerant distributed system on top of commodity datacenter hardware, to deliver an infrastructure for hosting cloud applications in virtual servers. We create an illusion that resources are limitless, infinitely elastic, and always available.

Kronox is a team which helps customers manage Virtual Machines at scale by providing a simple way to set-up/destroy the resources at predefined schedule and do it as quickly as possible to optimize Cost of Goods Sold (COGs). This becomes an exercise in constantly balancing the tradeoffs between higher Service level agreement (SLA) (resources are available when needed) and COGs (resources should not be running longer than needed). This puts the team at the intersection of large-scale distributed systems and advanced data science and ML prediction models.

If you’re interested in attacking hard technical problems and driving innovation in an area that has huge potential for impact on the company’s future, then this is THE position for you.

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.

• Coaches and supports partnership with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project manager, technical lead) to determine user requirements within teams.
• Coaches teams and drives identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.
• Coaches team members within the team in producing extensible and maintainable code. Involved in code reviews.
• Coaches team to drive multiple group's project plans, release plans, and work items in coordination with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers).
• Coaches others and acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and guides other engineers across products, working on call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions.
• Seeks new knowledge that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale and shares knowledge with other engineers.
• Consistently contribute key ideas to the product or service design and vision that meets the customer's needs. Drive design reviews across the team and apply expertise in available technologies. Apply metrics to drive the quality and stability of code. Have a sense of pride, commitment, and personal accountability for the service quality, completeness and resulting user experience for the life of the product or service. Work closely with geographically distributed team, including Product Managers and developers, to drive key improvements in backend Engineering System.