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Overview:

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’s 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. 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.

We are looking to hire Engineering Manager to join our team. If you are the one who is interested in working on Database and Serverless technology, build and lead highly motivated team that participates in creating and delivering the next generation of technologies that powers Azure Databases, that is currently impacting millions of customers across the planet. This is the job for you! 

We are the Azure SQL Database Storage/IO resource governance  team, part of the Microsoft Azure’s C+ AI organization. Our team is responsible to ensure high efficiency of operations while interacting with storage which persists with the data. In addition to maintaining an efficient Quality of Service (QoS) with respect to latency and bandwidth, the team is also responsible for ensuring the customer gets the right kind of storage medium based on their need and historical usage pattern. Based on the customer needs, the team is responsible for putting them on the right tier of storage, moving them across to a different storage medium if desired with minimal downtime, analyze and rectify customer workload for efficient storage utilization. Azure SQL has more than 100 million databases under its belt, and for its efficient operation has an even higher number of storage resources allocated. The team is responsible for efficient functioning of storage on all parameters and for all services. At your disposal will be SQL's state-of-the-art management system, a sophisticated engine, and terabytes of telemetry to make informed decisions.   

With this unprecedented growth comes added complexity in our database storage ecosystem, at scales we never imagined before. As a Principal Software Engineering Manager, this is your opportunity to take on a challenge to build and improve database storage infra with cutting-edge technologies. This team is on a mission to define and deliver a world class storage infra for relational database, that position infrastructure as a key differentiator for customer value and business margins.  

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.

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

Responsibilities:

• Leads and develops a team of 6+ engineers to deliver high business impact projects on-time with quality.  

• Provides technical insight on the following: architecture, design, code reviews, development, quality assurance and live site management.   

• Provide clarity in scope of work and define accountabilities between teams.  

• Embraces the values of Microsoft through coaching and collaboration.   

• Partnering with peer teams working in similar areas .

Qualifications

• Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related discipline 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.

• Great curiosity and willingness to question, undaunted by hard technical problems.

• 2+ years of experience managing and leading team

• Good communication, collaboration, and planning skills with demonstrated commitment to the success of others

• Desire to manage diverse, inclusive, and collaborative software teams

• Strong design, implementation, and communication skills.

• Preferred Qualifications:

• Demonstrated experience leading high-performing engineering teams that work on system software is preferred

• Competent in designing, developing, debugging, and validating excellent products

• Working knowledge of operating systems concepts (scheduling, caching, memory management) is a strong plus.

• Experience with at-scale distributed systems

• Experience with large-scale data analytics and appropriate data systems

• Passionate about quality and engineering excellence as one needs to work as an all-rounder engineer focusing on Dev, Test, and Support

• Technical passion, terrific problem-solving skills, and self-motivated

• Other Requirements:

• Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements arerequired for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: Microsoft Cloud.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html) .