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Microsoft Corporation Principal Software Engineering Manager in Prague, Czech Republic
Any Developer. Any App. Any Platform.
Microsoft is making significant investments to empower every person and organization on the planet to achieve more. Join our team driving developer experiences for Microsoft and our customers. This space is rich with challenging technical problems that require innovative and well-executed solutions.
This is an exciting time to be part of our group, working on strategic initiatives at Microsoft. At Azure DevOps, we deliver mission-critical services used by millions of developers. Our enterprise customers, including Microsoft, use Azure DevOps to collaboratively build apps and services and securely deploy them to production.
The Azure DevOps Platform team in Prague builds a suite of microservices to support the scaling and reliability needs of the platform, which runs some of the largest, most complex, and demanding DevOps workloads in the industry.
Responsibilities
In this role you will lead the Azure DevOps Platform team based in Prague, a fast-paced team of talented engineers who thrive solving complex problems at-scale. You will have the following key responsibilities:
Leading and mentoring a high-performing team of senior engineers.
Promoting a growth mindset, encouraging continuous learning and development.
Defining the strategic direction of the team to align with organizational goals.
Building strong relationships with senior leaders to optimize performance and costs.
Overseeing the design, development, and deployment of scalable and reliable microservices for enterprise customers.
Ensuring adherence to best practices in software development and operational excellence.
Managing incident response, live site investigations, and root cause analyses to improve service resiliency.
Using customer and partner feedback to drive product and service improvements.
Qualifications
Relevant experience managing teams of 6+ engineers
Proven software development experience
Demonstrated ability to partner across teams to deliver experiences that customers love
Demonstrated ability of managing and developing junior and senior talent.
Growth mindset to look at each challenge as an opportunity to learn, create clarity, generate energy and deliver success.
Demonstrated ability to apply systems and approaches to ensuring high quality in products and services
Demonstrated ability to synthesize customer and partner feedback into action
Excellent collaboration skills and critical thinking
Excellent communication skills both verbal and written
*Nice to have *
Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering or related fields
Knowledge of Azure Cloud or other cloud providers.
Experience designing, building and running large scale, secure and highly available cloud services or distributed systems
Troubleshooting skills across network, application, caching, queuing, load-balancing storage and distributed services layers
Practice of modern software engineering, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and safe deployment practices.
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. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form (https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/accommodationrequest) .
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html) .
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