Principal Software Engineering Manager

**Azure Resource Graph**’s (ARG part of ARM/Azure Control plane) mission is to Reliably organize the planet-scale cloud inventory and making it accessible to every Azure customer through scalable, and performant tools.

ARG is the Inventory of cloud resources, dependencies, services, apps & Azure metadata and is a core service enabling almost all Azure experiences and workloads that are running on top of Azure. Azure Portal, Azure Market Place, Search, Catalog at-scale experiences scenarios for every single Azure customer are powered by ARG. It provides a single pane of glass to query cloud resources via a set of flexible standards with rich scalable, efficient constructs. These standards and toolsets are used by large customers and first party teams alike. ARG’s vision is to enable any customer (large to small) to organize, govern, secure, manage and explore their environments at-scale. Anything we design, develop, or deliver aligns with this vision. As of today, we return close to 6.5+ billion cloud resources per day through these standards to our customers and independent software vendors.

**Principal Software Engineering Manager -ARG team** - this position is one of the core engineering functions and sits right in the center of the platform enabling various other connected engineering functions.

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**:

- Foster and develop talented engineers capable of developing and running scalable, reliable, maintainable services.
- Focus on usage/metrics of the owned services and be customer focused.
- Create robust career development plans to help team members grow.
Lead, coach, and build a diverse, inclusive, high-performing team where all team members can do their best work.
- Drive technical design and vision for building the necessary underlying systems to enable ARG vision.
- Help the team plan and execute technical deliverables.
- Work closely with our external partners to support the team’s mission.Collaborate closely with teams within Azure to leverage the best technology to advance the team’s mission.
- Bring your curiosity, entrepreneurial spirit, and passion to deliver on the promise of technology in a difficult, and exciting vertical.
- Develop deep business acumen about Azure. You will create clarity for the team and mentor junior members by creating a sense of purpose on this mission.
- Embody our Culture and Values.

**Qualifications**:

- Demontrated experience in technical people leadership and mentorship of a team of software engineers and the ability to drive impact on the overall technical strategy
- Significant commercial experience in a software development environment
- Ability to evolve and uplift engineering practices and culture to build a world-class engineering team
- Strong communication skills and ability to work collaboratively across several teams
- Excellent problem-solving skills with ability to quickly adapt to new technology and go deep.

**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.

**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.

**Preferred Qualifications**:

- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
- OR related technical field AND 10+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript,
- OR Python
- OR 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 equivalent experience.
- 4+ years people management experience.

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