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Our team provides the buy-side platform on which advertisers and curators in our marketplace can access inventory and transact their ad campaigns with high efficiency and at high volume.

As a Principal Software Engineering Manager in our team, you will be making technical, operational, planning, and strategic contributions to our real-time platform in support of our growing business. This opportunity will allow you to hone your skills building systems that operate at high scale, high availability, low latency, and high cardinality. You will have opportunities to develop deep business understanding of existing and future advertising practices. You'll work directly with high accomplished teams and engineers that drive performance and innovation at the cutting edge. You will be responsible for career development of direct reports, and contribute to a thriving culture in our larger team. Our team is globally distributed which provides flexible and partial remote work opportunities.

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Responsibilities

• Guides partnership with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project manager, technical lead, product owners, and commercial partners) to determine requirements within and across teams.

• Guides teams and leads identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.

• Optimizes, debugs, refactors, and reuses code to improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI).

• Guides team to drive multiple group's project plans, release plans, and work items in coordination with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers).

• Guides team and acts as an expert for Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and monitors other engineers across product lines, working on call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions.

• Leads product development and scaling to customer requirements and applies best practices for meeting scaling needs and performance expectations and holds accountability for products that do not meet expectations.

• Brings strong engineering practices and processes, excels at operating and supporting high volume and highly critical business systems on a global scale, acts as an engineering role model who brings strong C and Unix experience in building distributed systems, and mentors and develops other engineers in the team on all aspects of world class software development.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python

• OR equivalent experience.

• 4+ years people management experience.

• 4+ years experience in C development on unix environments.

Other Requirements:

Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:

• Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Understanding of advertising systems.

• Experience in delivering mission-critical business backend systems on tight deadlines

• Building, monitoring, and operating globally distributed systems

• Experience with large scale and low latency systems

• Track record of strong execution, collaboration, and seeking alignment, working with stakeholders across a global team

Software Engineering M5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $137,600 - $267,000 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $180,400 - $294,000 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until December 3, 2024

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) .