Microsoft is hiring a Principal Software Engineering Manager to lead the team responsible for Azure’s configuration distribution platform—a foundational system that ensures configurations are reliably delivered across the cloud. This role is ideal for individuals who enjoy solving complex distributed systems challenges, growing engineering teams, and building dependable infrastructure that supports services across Azure. Our mission is to standardize and scale configuration distribution to make it more secure, efficient, and resilient in a dynamic cloud environment.
Requirements
- 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C-Sharp, or Rust
- 1+ year(s) of experience of coding/designing experience in distributed systems cloud-based services.
- 10+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C-Sharp, or Rust
- 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C-Sharp, or Rust
- 1+ year(s) of coding/designing experience in distributed systems cloud based services.
Responsibilities
- 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 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.
Other
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline
- 2+ year(s) of experience years people management experience.
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role.
- Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
- 4+ year(s) of experience years people management experience.
