Principal Engineering Manager - Developer Platform

Microsoft • Redmond, WA

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About The Position

Viva Engage connects people through communities, bringing leaders and employees together to share knowledge, clarify priorities, and build relationships. Viva Engage (formerly Yammer) is the premier tool to create multi-directional dialogue between tens of millions of employees worldwide every month.
As a Principal Engineering Manager - Developer Platform, you will lead and manage a team of engineers focused on building dev platforms and tooling to boost productivity and quality of delivering highly available products and services. The day-to-day responsibilities include a blend of technical, hands-on leadership with people management and partnership skills with goal to increase developer productivity by making data-driven improvements to the development tools / workflow / processes.
Our dev environment includes Linux on Azure, Java and Ruby on Rails services, deployed as docker containers, Mesos and Kubernetes container orchestration with observability using Grafana metrics and Azure Data Explorer log aggregation. Engage team members are at the forefront of driving artificial intelligence (AI) first product making and Copilot adoption to make org-wide communication and information sharing easy and authentic. Our dev platform enables Engage engineering to solve critical technical challenges such as scale, global delivery, and implementation across commercial and sovereign clouds, monitoring, serviceability, testability, debugging and maintenance.
Our work supports top challenges for our customers, including digital safety, trusted security standards, and deep analytics to help our customers maximize reach, reduce inefficiencies, and create a thriving organizational culture. We would love to have you join the team driving innovation, connection, and community for our valued global customers.
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.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field 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.
• 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.

Nice To Haves

• Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 12+ 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 with Engineering System and Developer Tooling.
• 5+ years of experience planning, designing, implementing, and delivering large projects with emphasis on Engineering Productivity and Quality.
• Experience working across disciplines, groups, and teams to drive Engineering Productivity.
• Experience architecting and delivering distributed cloud services, Azure preferred.
• Experience building AI tools for AI First/AI Native product teams.

Responsibilities

• Build, develop, grow and lead a team of engineers.
• Lead the vision, strategy, and execution for Dev Tooling and Engineering System with emphasis on driving productivity and quality.
• Drive adoption and impact of common dev tooling and practices to build, test and deploy Engage product with required compliance and security.
• Partner with Engineering, Infra, Security and other Engineering System teams within and beyond our organization to drive strategic decisions and execution excellence, leading to measurable business impact.
• Foster a culture that drives innovation, engineering excellence, guiding and motivating the team to constantly improve engineering productivity and dev experience.
• Build automated measurements and dashboards to gain insights into the productivity of the Engineering organization to identify opportunities for improvement.
• Embody our culture and values.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Principal
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees