Why Microsoft  

Microsoft is a company where passionate innovators come to collaborate, envision what can be and take their careers to levels they cannot achieve anywhere else. This is a world of more possibilities, more innovation, more openness, and sky's-the-limit thinking -- a cloud-enabled world. 

Join us. Make an impact. We are the Sky team and have the mandate and opportunity to empower Microsoft Cloud teams and their customers to easily deliver high-quality services using standard cloud architecture and infrastructure.

We understand that driving meaningful impact means empowering and enabling our customers to achieve more. Driven by customer needs, we are fuelling investments in standardized cloud architecture and infrastructure to build a solid foundation that gives customers an excellent experience with our products. Our portfolio includes projects that span the entirety of Microsoft’s cloud ecosystem. You will partner on projects across different areas like containerization, security, large-scale distributed systems, reliability, distributed computing, observability, etc.

Responsibilities

Sky is a talented, diverse, and supportive organization that celebrates development and learning. We pride ourselves on embracing a growth mindset to pursue technical excellence. We value collaboration and craftsmanship to drive results that move the needle for our customers. We engineer elegant solutions to complex problems. We encourage an informal and flexible work environment, and you are welcome to work from home, or in our offices - wherever you can do your best work.

As a Software Engineering Manager on the Sky team, you will have the incredible opportunity to work on business-critical initiatives that directly contribute to the future of Azure’s business. You must be deeply technical and able to ramp up in new areas quickly since your responsibilities will span all areas of Azure’s business as well as all layers of the cloud technology stack.

You will lead a team of software engineers as well as review and contribute to technical design and implementation of solutions to difficult problems within the infrastructure which enables the success of Microsoft's services. This will require working with stakeholders across Azure to define the problem, and to research, design and develop the solution. You will collaborate with teams of developers and program managers throughout the process offering opportunities to learn from and mentor others.

As a manager you will be responsible for the performance management and development of your reports, short and long-term planning, and the execution and delivery of that work.

Qualifications

What skills do you need to have?  

There will be many opportunities for you to learn and grow into this role and Microsoft. However, to be able to best deliver on the purpose of this role, these are the core skills and experiences you should have on day one: 

• Proven experience in software development coding in an object-oriented, strongly typed programming language such as C#, C++, or Java
• Proven experience managing or leading teams of software engineers
• Demonstrable ability to own and deliver software projects

Team Culture and Support 

Microsoft believes that by investing in our people and creating an inclusive environment, our team will do their best work.  See our complete list of benefits and why we are recognised as an Endorsed Employer for Women by WORK180. Microsoft Benefits | WORK180 Endorsed Employer 

Our mission is deeply inclusive. See Inside Microsoft | Global Diversity and Inclusion at Microsoft 

What next?  

Even if you feel you may not meet 100% of the criteria, please apply. You may exceed your own expectations, or we may have another opportunity that suits your potential.  While we’re not able to reach out directly to every applicant, we will always do our best to help you feel heard and supported throughout the experience.     

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