Principal Engineering Manager
Redmond, WA 
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Posted 8 days ago
Job Description
OverviewDo you see yourself as a coach, a guide, a collaborator, and an engineer? Would you be excited to drive major changes to a high scale service that is critical to the company? Do you care deeply about fostering a great team culture? We are looking for a Principal Engineering Manager for the Substrate Store Team who embraces these roles and is excited by the technical challenges that come with building and scaling storage services. 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. The Substrate Store Team owns critical components around groups, authorization, and configuration. We work closely with partners across M365 to enable critical suite-wide scenarios. The Principal Engineering Manager will model technical and service excellence and embraces Microsoft cultural values of inclusion and caring to help drive the following outcomes: Coach - Work with each person on your team to help them to do their best work and grow. Define and foster an identity for the team that includes a reputation for high quality, reliability, and inclusivity. Guide - Define the business goals for the team then create and execute on a plan to meet those goals. Build a vision for changing the underlying technology of the service and guide the team through landing it while maintaining the availability of the live site. Collaborate - Strive to understand the motivations and goals of the teams we're working with and work towards a better solution together. Engineer - Care deeply about the availability, resilience, scalability, and cost of the critical 5-9s service we are running.
ResponsibilitiesLead and support a team of 8-12 engineers in the US and Latin America to deliver high quality business objectives. Collaborate closely with an integrated remote team in Suzhou, China: work with a peer Engineering Manager to define joint goals execution plan. Provide hands-on technical leadership: architecture, design, code reviews, development, quality assurance and live site. Drive modern engineering practices such as continuous integration, unit testing, automated deployments with integrated quality gates. Partner with Product Management to meet immediate and longer-term business objectives. Collaborate with teams across the company in Office and Azure. Hire, retain, and grow top talent. Foster a healthy and inclusive team environment. Be a mentor for the people on your team and help them grow.

 

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Regular, Full Time
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