Principal Engineering Manager

3 weeks ago


Sydney, Australia Microsoft Full time

Microsoft Azure organization offers a terrific opportunity for technical enrichment and career growth. As part of Microsoft Azure, the Azure Networking team designs and builds the network infrastructure that powers hundreds of thousands of servers in datacenters around the globe, providing core network infrastructure services for Azure, Bing, and other Microsoft cloud services. In Azure Networking, we are at the very front of cloud computing by running one of the largest data centre networks in the world.

As a
**_Principal Engineering Manager_** in Azure Networking, you will gain marketable experience in massive scale data centre network architecture and design, network infrastructure automatic management, software defined networking and high scalable/available/reliable distributed service design/implementation.

Microsoft Azure has decided to expand support for its IP Address Management (IPAM) and Network Metadata systems from China into Australia. You will be part of a newly established team that will collaborate with and gain deep domain knowledge from the existing teams in China. The IPAM and Metadata systems track every IP address and network port owned by Microsoft, and data-validation ensures correctness. All our network management tooling, from quality control to alerting to configuration management, is driven from an authoritative description of what our network should be including types of routers/switches, how they are connected, and details such as what IP addresses and features are configured on them.

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organisation 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) to determine user requirements within and across teams.
- 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.
- To be able to identify root causes of network issues and system performance bottlenecks, propose simple and implementable technical solutions and actively reach out to customers to solve their pain points.

**Qualifications**:
**Required 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.
- Effective communication skills and ability to work in a collaborative environment.

**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**:

- Knowledge about highly reliable distributed system, micro service, service fabric, Azure Devops, Redis, Bootstrap.
- Be familiar with common network protocols, such as TCP, BGP, IP routing, IPv6 etc., experience on networking router configuration will be a plus.
- Technical passion and terrific problem-solving skills to drive for result and impact.
- Any experience with network security is an advantage.
- People management experience.

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