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. It is a cornerstone of Office365, the fastest growing business at Microsoft. We’re pushing all the boundaries at world scale: usage, user data, availability, capacity, technical challenges, building the future of modern productivity. We are looking for a technical lead to help shepherd the engineers and architecture this evolving product, and experienced, passionate, highly adaptive engineering manager to build that future with us.

Substrate Engineering Systems is responsible for the Exchange and Office365 pipeline into production, from initial developer concept, through coding, validation, build, and deployment into production. Through modern engineering, we will transition to increasingly more agile and responsive engineering systems and practices. In partnership with OneMicrosoft engineering efforts, we will chart and deliver an engineering experience for Substrate that will take us forward into that future.

In this position, you will build the tools, technologies, and services that enable engineering for Substrate. You will be responsible for building large-scale services as well as ensuring that the day-to-day experience of engineers are both efficient and empowering.

Responsibilities

• Help drive long-term architecture and detailed design for a highly scalable distributed, big service.
• Drive long-term design thinking for systems and engineering processes with simplicity and maintainability as core tenants. 
• Deliver value through a strong collaborative approach spanning diverse and remote teams.
• Drive impact by identifying and delivering both internally and externally. 
• Help continue to develop and improve our “best-in-class” engineering processes by ensuring that the services and the components are well-defined and modularized, secure, reliable, reusable, diagnosable, and actively monitored. 
• Mentor and develop engineers across all levels through fostering curiosity and exploration, knowledge-sharing, and leveraging the skills of others
• Be a role model for an open, honest, and inclusive approach to problem solving. 

Qualifications

• Proficiency in C# or C/C++, and strong design, implementation, and debugging skills; knowledge of scripting languages a plus
• Experience with distributed systems, databases
• 2+ years leading teams of software engineers, with backend services experience.
• Strong communication skills (both written and oral)
• Ability to prioritize tasks and work independently
• BS/BA in computer science, or equivalent in related technical experience

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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