Principal Software Engineering Manager

The cloud computing world is evolving at an unprecedented pace, and Microsoft Azure is at the forefront, empowering businesses to drive transformative digital outcomes. Azure VMware Solution (AVS) is a strategic offering within the Azure ecosystem, enabling enterprise customers to seamlessly extend or migrate their existing VMware workloads to Azure, offering agility, scale, and integrated Microsoft services. We are seeking a visionary and technically adept Principal Engineering Manager to lead and expand our world-class engineering team for Azure VMware Solution. This is a unique opportunity to shape the future of hybrid cloud infrastructure and make a significant impact on the way global organizations modernize their IT operations.

As a Principal Engineering Manager for Azure VMware Solution, you will provide technical and people leadership for a team developing, delivering, and supporting a high-impact cloud platform. You will be responsible for driving end-to-end engineering execution, fostering innovation, and growing engineering talent. Your team will be building, integrating, and optimizing complex cloud services that bridge the VMware and Azure platforms, ensuring reliability, security, and a seamless customer experience. You will collaborate with senior product, program, and partner teams across Microsoft and VMware, influencing the direction of hybrid cloud solutions for the enterprise market.

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:

• Mentor, coach, and grow engineering talent at all levels, focusing on career development, technical skills, and leadership capabilities.
• Ensure high standards for software reliability, supportability, and maintainability through automation, monitoring, and proactive incident management.
• Foster a culture of innovation, inclusion, continuous learning, and operational excellence within the team.
• Collaborate with Microsoft's product, business, and customer engineering stakeholders to prioritize roadmap features and ensure alignment with customer needs and business objectives.
• Oversee the delivery of scalable, resilient, and performant services, ensuring seamless integration with Azure core services including networking, identity, security, and monitoring.

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, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 3+ years of experience with public cloud environments (Azure, AWS, Google Cloud Platform), and hybrid cloud architectures.
• 4+ years of people management skills, with experience leading high-performing, diverse engineering teams.

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.
• 5+ years of experience with public cloud environments (Azure, AWS, Google Cloud Platform), and hybrid cloud architectures.
• 1+ years hands-on experience with Azure networking, identity, and security services.
• 3+ years experience working in close partnership with VMware, or on VMware-based solutions.

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 and processes offers for these roles on an ongoing basis.

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