Principal Software Engineering Manager

Microsoft Azure is the world's foundry for innovation and excellence!

We are part of the Azure networking team responsible for designing, building, and operating network connectivity, application load balancing, and security services. These services include: Azure ExpressRoute, Virtual Private Network (VPN), Azure, Firewall, Azure Bastion, Azure Application Gateway, Application Gateway for Containers, Web Application Firewall (WAF), Azure Virtual Wide Area Network (Virtual WAN), and Virtual Network Functions (VNF) platform. At the core of these services is a solid Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) infrastructure that we continuously innovate on to improve the agility, reliability, and cost-effectiveness of our services. Our team's innovations are well recognized in the cloud industry.

Our culture promotes diversity and inclusion and is clearly reflected in all the things that we do. Diversity is more than a commitment for us - it is the foundation of what we do. This is a high visibility position in an area of large and expanding investment for Azure and offers a terrific opportunity to innovate, influence, transform, and grow. We encourage you to apply to learn more!

We are looking for an Principal Software Engineering Manager, to lead a team of talented engineers, to design, build and operate this fast-paced service. If you are an experienced engineering lead with a track record of delivering high quality services, passion to build and grow people, excitement to operate in a startup culture while delivering services with enterprise level maturity, this is a great opportunity for you to take the next step in your career (experienced individual contributors are encouraged to apply). We own entire services end-to-end from user facing interface to management plane and all the way down to data path implementation.

Azure Application Gateway is changing the landscape of how customers manage, secure and scale their applications while ensuring trusted and fast connectivity to their network. There is an exciting roadmap ahead to provide the best application delivery experience as well as the opportunity to shape future of this service.

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:

• Engineering Leads in Azure Networking are responsible for design, development, testing, deployment and operations of critical services.
• Engineering Leads own developing the services as well as the engineering team by coaching and mentoring the team members within the team in producing extensible and maintainable code.
• Lead the innovation around architecture, design and coding by bringing in their expertise and out-of-box thinking. They also get opportunity to manage project timelines and define vision of the product working closely with product managers, leads and partners.
• 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.
• Other:
  • Embody our Culture and Values

Qualifications:

Required/Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, Golang, Rust, C++, C#, Java, or Python
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of technical experience in one or more of the following areas:
  • Networking (TCP/IP, UDP, TLS/SSL, HTTP/HTTPS)
  • Distributed Systems
  • Designing and running large-scale fault-tolerant infrastructure services
  • RESTful Services
• 2+ years of experience in building, leading and growing team of engineers.

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.

Additional or Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
  • OR related technical field AND 10+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript,
  • OR Python
  • OR Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 4+ years people management experience.
• Proficiency in designing network solutions, distributed systems, and large-scale cloud services
• Knowledge of container platforms and networking technologies (Docker, Kubernetes), routing and networking protocols such as IP, IPv6, TCP/UDP, TLS, BGP, and application-level protocols such as HTTP, HTTPS, QUIC
• 1+ years experience with Kubernetes and wider Cloud native / Container ecosystem, L4-L7 proxies (Nginx, Envoy)
• Contribution to open-source software projects is a plus

Software Engineering M5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $139,900 - $274,800 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $188,000 - $304,200 per year.

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Microsoft will accept applications for the role until August 6, 2025.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form .

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