Job Description

Microsoft is a company where passionate innovators come to collaborate, envision what can be and take their careers further. This is a world of more possibilities, more innovation, more openness, and the sky is the limit thinking in a cloud-enabled world.

Microsoft\xe2\x80\x99s Azure Data engineering team is leading the transformation of analytics in the world of data with products like databases, data integration, big data analytics, messaging & real-time analytics, and business intelligence. The products our portfolio include Microsoft Fabric, Azure SQL DB, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure PostgreSQL, Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Service Bus, Azure Event Grid, and Power BI. Our mission is to build the data platform for the age of AI, powering a new class of data-first applications and driving a data culture.

Within Azure Data, the databases team builds and maintains Microsoft\'s operational Database systems. We store and manage data in a structured way to enable multitude of applications across various industries. We are on a journey to enable developer friendly, mission-critical, AI enabled operational Databases across relational, non-relational and OSS offerings.

Azure PostgreSQL is a rapidly growing team inside Azure Data and Microsoft and we\'re looking for a Principle Software Engineering Manager who has experience in building world class team and are excited about building large scale managed database cloud services. If you love the engineering challenges of designing and delivering cutting-edge, cloud-scale distributed systems technologies, if you have experience with postgres, containters, docker and are passionate about developing fault tolerant, performant, self-managing, self-healing services hosting mission critical customer workloads and are operated at massive scale, this role is for you!

We do not just value differences or different perspectives. We seek them out and invite them in so we can tap into the collective power of everyone in the company. As a result, our customers are better served.

Responsibilities:

As a Principal Software Engineering Manager on the Azure PostgreSQL team you will work with all service aspects and will have opportunity to manage a team of strong developers and influence in design of a massively scalable database hosting services using the latest technologies in compute and container hosting. You will be able to apply your critical thinking, problem solving, design, coding and debugging skills to help build these services. You will have the chance to influence the next generation of database hosting platform for Microsoft. You will get to work on solving some of the most difficult and complex problems in distributed systems space, with a highly motivated and passionate team. You will have the opportunity to develop deep relationships with open source communities with high impact on Microsoft\xe2\x80\x99s data business.

Embody our and

Qualifications:

Collaborate with team members to plan, architect, implement and deliver new features and experiences.
Oversees partnership with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project manager, technical lead) to determine user requirements within and across teams for multiple solutions or product lines.
Keeps informed of and communicates new standards to ensure that the product development and scaling is to customer requirements, applying best practices for meeting scaling needs and performance expectations.
Enables and fosters cross-team communications to drive cross-functional results and resolves conflicts between teams.
Define team objectives and outcomes; Enable success across boundaries; Help the team adapt and learn.
Provide technical and team leadership in efforts to collect, classify, and analyze complex data and analyses on a range of metrics (e.g., health of the system, where bugs might be occurring). Leads the refinement of products through data.

Preferred/Additional Qualifications

Bachelor\'s Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline 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.

Preferred/Additional Qualifications

6+ years people management experience.

MS in Computer Science or equivalent.

Track record of managing cross-functional / cross-time zone teams.

Experience in building / managing Control Plane for distributed services.

Experience with PostgreSQL database

Experience in managing services based on Linux ecosystem.

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.

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