Principal Software Engineering Manager

Join our dynamic Bing Places Team as a Principal Software Engineering Manager and help us build high quality Location Search Capabilities for people and businesses around the world. We also power location understanding capabilities for MAI Organization. At Bing Places team, you’ll be instrumental in building cutting-edge services that powers Bing Search and Microsoft AI scenarios. You will build a highly motivated team to work on researching, driving, and solving complex technical problems in Autosuggest and Geocoding. If you are ready to embrace this exciting opportunity, Bing Location Search is the best place for you!

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

• Lead and mentor the team in design, develop and maintain efficient and scalable algorithms for Autosuggest and Geocoding, ensuring adherence to modern engineering practices through design and code reviews.
• Collaborate closely with remote teams in Redmond, US, work with peer Engineering Managers and Product Managers to define joint goals, meet immediate and long-term business objectives.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership in architecture, design, code reviews, development, live site and monitoring.
• Build a vision for changing the underlying technology of the location services meeting current and future needs, coach the team in landing it while maintaining the availability of production services.
• Drive modern engineering practices such as continuous integration, automated deployments.
• Stay up to date with latest in technologies such as LLM, to improve quality, relevance, efficiency of location search services.
• Foster a positive team culture and embody company values, ensuring collaboration, innovation, and personal development are prioritized within the team.
• Hire, retain and grow top talent.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND extended years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • OR equivalent experience.
• Extended years of experience building commercial grade software, with much of that experience in mission-critical, large scale, high availability services.
• Experience as an engineering manager, or a technical lead with a passion for coaching and mentoring others. Leading projects and software engineers.
• Experience communicating vision\roadmap to leadership, and technical architecture\concepts to a broader team.

Other Requirements:

Candidates must be able to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements that 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:

• Search or autosuggest experience.
• Experience with maps data and / or geospatial services
  
• Experience with statistical methods, large data analytics and ML
  
• Strong experience with cloud technologies

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. 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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