Senior Software Engineer Manager

The Azure Core New Tech team is seeking lead engineers who are eager to help with the New Technology onboarding process: automating how new hardware is verified, managed, and delivered to Microsoft datacenters for Azure, High-Performance Computing, Office, and Edge Computing products within Microsoft.

• Coaches the team’s partnership with stakeholders to clarify user requirements within the team’s owned components/features; raises cross‑team gaps through appropriate channels.
• Leads the team to identify dependencies and produce design docs for their owned area; coordinates with adjacent teams as needed with support from senior leaders for broader alignment.
• Sets engineering standards and reviews work so engineers optimize, debug, refactor, and reuse code to improve performance, maintainability, and ROI.
• Owns the team’s project and release plans, driving backlog health, delivery cadence, and quality; coordinates with PM and partner teams to land dependencies and dates.
• Acts as (or assigns) DRI for the team’s services/components and runs an effective on‑call, ensuring incident response, triage, and post‑incident learning for the team’s scope; escalates systemic issues appropriately.
• Ensures the team’s services meet defined scale and performance expectations for their scope, applies best practices, and surfaces risks early when goals/SLOs are at risk.

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND 4+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C++, C#, Java
• 1+ year(s) with a comprehensive understanding of computer networking concepts (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP), Domain Name System (DNS), routing, switching, firewalls)
• 1+ year(s) knowledge of datacenter infrastructure and server architecture, including hardware components (Central Processing Unit (CPU), memory, storage, network interfaces).

• 401k matching
• Health insurance
• Flight privileges
• Generous time away
• Maternity and paternity leave
• Savings and investments
• Discounts on products and services
• Opportunities to network and connect

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