Software Engineering Manager

The Azure Networking team builds the software systems that power Microsoft’s global cloud infrastructure. Our services operate at extraordinary scale—supporting millions of network devices across datacenters worldwide—and are foundational to the performance and reliability of Microsoft’s cloud and AI platforms. As a leader in this team, you’ll guide the development of large-scale, distributed services that drive automation, insight, and operational excellence across the network. This is a unique opportunity to lead the creation of high-impact systems at the core of Microsoft’s most critical infrastructure.

We are looking for a Software Engineering Manager to lead a team in building and scaling the telemetry backbone that powers Microsoft’s global network infrastructure. This role is pivotal in shaping how we observe, understand, and optimize our network—spanning millions of devices and supporting everything from Azure to AI workloads.

You will lead a team of engineers to design, develop, and operate distributed systems that gather and process massive volumes of telemetry from network devices. These systems must handle diverse data sources and communication patterns, all unified by one challenge: scale. As a manager, you will set the technical vision, drive execution, mentor engineers, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure the reliability and performance of our global network infrastructure.

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

• Coaches and supports partnership with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project manager, technical lead) to determine user requirements within teams.
• Coaches teams and drives identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.
• Coaches team members within the team in producing extensible and maintainable code.
• Coaches team to drive multiple group's project plans, release plans, and work items in coordination with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers).
• Coaches others and acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and guides other engineers across products, working on call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions.
• Seeks new knowledge that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale and shares knowledge with other engineers.

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications:

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

Other Qualifications:

• 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.

Additional Or Preferred Qualifications:

• Master'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
• People management experience.
• OR equivalent 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.  We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. 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.

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