The Product:

Are you a great technical leader? Are you interested in leading a team to deliver product features that ship every week? Do you like working on technology problems which impact people on a global scale?

Microsoft Teams is an application in the Office365 family. We believe the modern workspace is underserved by the existing software solutions and we are building Microsoft Teams, the new, truly modern collaboration and productivity hub for the workspace. This product will provide you with an opportunity to work with teams and technologies across the company and beyond. If the above excites you, then Microsoft Teams would like to hear from you!

The Opportunity:

We are looking for a top performing Principal Engineering Manager, who would like to work in a startup-like environment, building technology fast and with high quality. The ideal candidate has successful management experience and strong product design and development skills. You will be a key member of the leadership team: driving critical design initiatives, taking part in strategic and tactical decisions, being accountable for shipping a complete product that succeeds with our customers.

You will be part of a very strong and fun team, building very large-scale data infrastructure, staying touch on the state-of-the-art big data technologies in both open source and Microsoft own stack, developing advanced and practical data pipelining, mining, machine learning, statistics, and measurement techniques for solving the hottest and most challenging problems in the world and generating real impact.

If you have a history of designing, owning, and shipping software, as well as excellent communication and collaboration skills, then we want to talk to you. You should have a solid understanding of the software development cycle and have a passion for secure, reliable, scalable, and maintainable code. Successful candidates should have ability to ramp up quickly on new technologies and adopt solution from within the company or from the Open-Source community. In addition, strong problem solving & debugging skills are a must

Collaboration: This position promises lots of cross-team collaboration. Expect to create lasting, productive relationships with teams inside and outside Microsoft.  

Agility: Expect new challenges to arrive every day. Expect to collaborate, reason, and sort through priorities with your team.  

Technical Complexity: Expect to speak proficiently about deeply technical subjects and understand the nuances of customer workflows. Expect fun and inspiring technical work that grows your skillset as a developer. 

Customer-focus: Above all else, you should expect customer feedback to guide your work. A successful candidate will show empathy for customers, be sensitive to their needs, and use teamwork to deliver a great developer experience. 

Administration & Management: We delve in the areas of Teams administration & management and Teams app platform. Integrated device management solutions for all up Teams devices and Teams policy management with Teams Migration is a great experience. Also expect rich insights, recommendations, forecasting and more for Teams admins and users

Responsibilities

The Ideal Candidate:

We’re looking for a fearless and innovative technical leader who is passionate about increasing Teams's daily and monthly usage and retention to join us and drive us to the next level of business success by getting the apps that matter to people at work, at school and at home integrated. The candidate can expect to build a wide range of skills and experiences in this role. The candidate should have experience in all phases of the development cycle, preferably on large-scale commercial products including collaborating across the groups and cross discipline with Design, PM and our partner teams. Candidate is expected to lead the team with an approach that embraces and extends the industry best practices for software engineering.

The team today is agile, shipping monthly, eager to learn, and willing to try new ways of working. The Principal Group Engineering Manager will be expected to lead the team towards a solid vision of the agile and cross-platform engineering, be responsible for a solid architecture and amazing performance and quality, manage a great team, and remove any and all obstacles that are preventing the team from delivering as fast as they can. Candidate must be self-driven, proactive, results-oriented and have the ability to work with minimal ongoing direction

Qualifications

BS degree in computer science, engineering or equivalent degree

13 + years of software development experience with C, C++ or Java

Proven track record as a strong and effective engineering leader - managing and growing successful teams

Strong customer focus and passion for doing the right thing for the customer

Proven ability to establish trusted, effective relationships across diverse sets of stakeholders

Excellent communication skills and cross group collaboration

Ability to quickly pick up existing concepts and employ new techniques and strong problem solving

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. 

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