Overview
Senior Software Engineer Manager - Azure Core New Tech team. The Azure Core New Tech team is seeking lead engineers who help with the New Technology onboarding process: automating how new hardware is verified, managed, and delivered to Microsoft datacenters for Azure, High-Performance Computing, Office, and Edge Computing products. The team works at the interface of software and hardware to validate, onboard and manage hardware throughout its lifespan, track hardware metadata, and ensure quality and security of hardware when it reaches Microsoft datacenters. The team focuses on automating the management and tracking of New Technology onboarding to bring new technologies to market faster. This role provides a flexible working environment with hands-on hardware opportunities and hybrid work contributions.
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Responsibilities
Coaches the team's partnership with stakeholders to clarify user requirements within the team's owned components/features; raises cross‑team gaps through appropriate channels.
Leads the team to identify dependencies and produce design docs for their owned area; coordinates with adjacent teams as needed with support from senior leaders for broader alignment.
Sets engineering standards and reviews work so engineers optimize, debug, refactor, and reuse code to improve performance, maintainability, and ROI.
Owns the team's project and release plans, driving backlog health, delivery cadence, and quality; coordinates with PM and partner teams to land dependencies and dates.
Acts as (or assigns) DRI for the team's services/components and runs an effective on‑call, ensuring incident response, triage, and post‑incident learning for the team's scope; escalates systemic issues appropriately.
Ensures the team's services meet defined scale and performance expectations for their scope, applies best practices, and surfaces risks early when goals/SLOs are at risk.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications:
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND 4+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C++, C#, Java
1+ year(s) understanding of computer networking concepts (TCP/IP, DNS, routing, switching, firewalls)
1+ year(s) knowledge of datacenter infrastructure and server architecture, including hardware components (CPU, memory, storage, network interfaces)
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements, including the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/