Principal Software Engineering

Job Description

Job Title: Principal Software Engineering Manager
Location; Remote
Note: Only Females required

Overview
Would you like the satisfaction that comes with keeping every person and organization on the planet protected and productive each month through delivering high quality Windows updates? Do you want to explore and discover your full engineering potential? Do you enjoy working in a high performing diverse team with comradery and passion for development? If you answered “yes,” you will want to join our team!

We are the Customer Focused Engineering (CFE) team in Windows Servicing and Delivery (WSD) organization. We are responsible for all in market Windows Operating systems and we deliver updates to every Windows-based device in the world to protect users and enable them to be productive. While Security remains our primary focus, we also enable our commercial and enterprise customers by enabling new device support, addressing reliability and upgrade blocking issues. Our work is critical for the Windows family of Servers and PCs, SurfaceHub, Hololens, Azure and more. We are an agile team and ship twice every month, impacting over a billion Windows devices in the ecosystem.

We are looking for a highly motivated Software Engineering Leader to help us in this mission. You will lead a high performing team, responsible for keeping our customer base secure, improving the reliability of the platform, addressing customer reported issues, building data insights, and developing features to light up new scenarios and devices in the Windows ecosystem.

We encourage a growth mindset where failures are learning opportunities, feedback is a gift and collaboration yields better outcomes. Customers are the number one reason we exist; ensuring they have excellent experiences with Windows is our top priority. Customer excitement helps drive our own passion to create quality experiences.
Qualifications
12+ years of experience in building and shipping production grade software products
5+ years of experience in engineering management
5+ years of software design and development experience
Experience in managing highly complex, large scale software engineering projects
Demonstrated experience in collaborating with geographically distributed partner teams
Degree in Computer Science or equivalent preferred
Proven design and problem-solving skills, with an emphasis on quality and engineering excellence.
Critical, creative, and innovative thinking skills.
Proven communication skills, both verbal and written.
C,C++ based development experience and knowledge in OS Internals is a plus
Experience in Network Stack Development and Sustenance will be a plus.
Experience in Active Directory development will be a plus.

Responsibilities
Lead a team of highly motivated engineers in fixing security and non-security fixes in Windows OS Code to keep customers protected and productive.
Developing some of the features in Active Directory area for our customers.
Prioritize, manage, and coordinate the work of a team of engineers and align their work across WSD and partner organizations towards shared goals.
Manage schedules, risks, and issues with effective communication to the team, to senior management, company executives, and partners inside and outside Microsoft.
Crafting high-quality bug-free fixes for externally and internally found security vulnerabilities.
Finding ways to improve products, tools, and processes for long-term benefit for Microsoft and customers.
Mentoring the Senior and junior engineers in the team.