Software Engineering Manager

Microsoft is a company where passionate innovators come to collaborate, envision what can be and take their careers further. This is a world of more possibilities, more innovation, more openness, and the sky is the limit thinking in a cloud-enabled world.

Microsoft’s Azure Data engineering team is leading the transformation of analytics in the world of data with products like databases, data integration, big data analytics, messaging & real-time analytics, and business intelligence. The products our portfolio include Microsoft Fabric, Azure SQL DB, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure PostgreSQL, Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Service Bus, Azure Event Grid, and Power BI. Our mission is to build the data platform for the age of AI, powering a new class of data-first applications and driving a data culture.

​​Within Azure Data, the big data analytics team provides a range of products that enable data engineers and data scientists to extract intelligence from all data – structured, semi-structured, and unstructured. We build the Data Engineering, Data Science, and Data Integration pillars of Microsoft Fabric.​

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The Spark Runtime is focused on making Fabric the best place to run Spark workloads. We are looking for a Principal Engineering Manager to effectively lead a critical component of the Spark Runtime team. Your challenge will be to improve the reliability and performance of Spark.

The customer base for Spark is sophisticated and deeply understands their requirements. You will partner with PMs to ensure that customers are successful using Spark with Fabric and your component is optimized to do so.

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We do not just value differences or different perspectives. We seek them out and invite them in so we can tap into the collective power of everyone in the company. As a result, our customers are better served.

Responsibilities

• ​​Lead a team of passionate engineers to deliver success for customers
• Hands-on involvement in designing, implementing, testing, and operating data services.
• Release features on time, with high quality, meeting functional, performance, scalability, and compliance requirements.
• Partner with PMs and architects to drive quality right from the spec and design phase while incorporating best practices and engineering for testability.
• Solve problems relating to mission critical services and create solutions that address the root cause.
• Participate in product live site and operations.
• Model, Coach, and Care to grow our team to deliver on the goal above​.

Embody our culture and values 

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• ​​Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/ Engineering/ Mathematics/ Physics/ IT related technical discipline and 10+ years of software engineering industry experience.
• 5+ years of programming experience in C OR C++.
• 5+ years of leading organizations and managing teams to successfully deliver innovation in database systems.

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/Additional Qualifications

• Master'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 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.
• 6+ years people management experience.
• Ideal candidates would have hands on experience with query execution or data management components of a database.
• Experience in iteratively improving the performance of a database engine.
• Work on performance optimizations , on disk and networking issues and on database systems

Software Engineering M6 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $163,000 - $296,400 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 $220,800 - $331,200 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 June 14th, 2025.

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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