Principal Engineering Manager

Do you see yourself as a coach, a guide, a collaborator, and an engineer? Would you be excited to drive major changes to a high scale service that is critical to the company? Do you care deeply about fostering a great team culture? We are looking for a Principal Engineering Manager for the Substrate Store Team who embraces these roles and is excited by the technical challenges that come with building and scaling storage services.

Substrate is the data and intelligence platform that enables internal partner teams at Microsoft to build, deploy, and maintain compliant productivity apps and services with reduced effort and faster time to market. The Substrate Store Team owns critical components around groups, authorization, and configuration. We work closely with partners across M365 to enable critical suite-wide scenarios.

The Principal Engineering Manager will model technical and service excellence and embraces Microsoft cultural values of inclusion and caring to help drive the following outcomes:

Coach

• Work with each person on your team to help them to do their best work and grow. Define and foster an identity for the team that includes a reputation for high quality, reliability, and inclusivity.

Guide

• Define the business goals for the team then create and execute on a plan to meet those goals. Build a vision for changing the underlying technology of the service and guide the team through landing it while maintaining the availability of the live site.

Collaborate

• Strive to understand the motivations and goals of the teams we're working with and work towards a better solution together.

Engineer

• Care deeply about the availability, resilience, scalability, and cost of the critical 5-9s service we are running.

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

o OR equivalent experience.

• 2+ experience as an engineering manager, or a technical lead with a passion for coaching and mentoring others.

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.

Preferred qualifications:

• Cloud and services experience; Azure cloud experience is a plus.

• Analytical skills with systematic and structured approach to software design.

• Passion for building reliable and well-tested code.

• Experience writing services and micro-services on middle- or back-end tier.

• Ability to communicate technical details clearly.

• Growth Mindset with a desire to learn, a tendency to embrace challenges, persist in the face of setback, see failures as essential to mastery, learn from criticism and find lessons and inspiration in the success of others.

• Help to create a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone can bring their full and authentic self, where all voices are heard, and where we do our best work as a result.

• Confident and articulate in expressing ideas to a mixed audience with varying views and challenges.

• A sense of personal ownership and accountability is required, together with the ability to develop and deliver to deadlines while managing internal stakeholder expectations.

• Self-motivated with a drive for reaching across teams and organizations to make progress collaboratively.

Software Engineering M5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $133,600 - $256,800 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 $173,200 - $282,200 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

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.

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

• Lead and support a team of 8-12 engineers in the US and Latin America to deliver high quality business objectives.

• Collaborate closely with an integrated remote team in Suzhou, China: work with a peer Engineering Manager to define joint goals execution plan.

• Provide hands-on technical leadership: architecture, design, code reviews, development, quality assurance and live site.

• Drive modern engineering practices such as continuous integration, unit testing, automated deployments with integrated quality gates.

• Partner with Product Management to meet immediate and longer-term business objectives.

• Collaborate with teams across the company in Office and Azure.

• Hire, retain, and grow top talent.

• Foster a healthy and inclusive team environment.

• Be a mentor for the people on your team and help them grow.