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Principal Software Engineering Manager - Azure Core
Posted on Dec. 3, 2024
- Dublin, Ireland
- 0 - 0 USD (yearly)
- Full Time
With the growing need to protect our customers and Microsoft services, the Azure Front Door WAF team is expanding to meet these demands. Azure Front Door provides a globally distributed, internet-facing suite of services that offer acceleration, caching, protection, and highly customizable traffic processing. The WAF team develops products to protect distributed services that handle requests with extremely low latency, at high scale, processing terabits of traffic per second and millions of requests per second with exceptional reliability. The team builds services at Layer 7 and Layer 3/4 of the networking stack to detect and prevent malicious intents, mitigate distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, and create innovative dynamically adapting protection systems to provide controlled and valid access to customer workloads and content.
As a Principal Software Engineering Manager in the Azure Front Door WAF team, you will be responsible for developing, managing, and operating the components of Azure WAF, owning the complete stack of feature development, and building new services and systems to enhance the security of Azure Front Door platforms. You will build robust services to safeguard customers and platform systems at various networking layers using the latest technologies across platforms. Your role will involve managing a team of talented individuals and creating services and code that are super-scalable yet lightweight, maintainable, efficient, and reliable. You will work with partner teams and stakeholders within and across organizations to build these solutions and grow the business. The position offers the flexibility to work from home or the office, depending on what best suits your needs.
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
- Partners with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a set of scenarios.
- Leads identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.
- Leads by example and mentors others to produce extensible and maintainable code used across products.
- Leverages subject-matter expertise of cross-product features with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to drive multiple group's project plans, release plans, and work items.
- Holds accountability as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI), mentoring engineers across products/solutions, working on-call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions.
- Proactively seeks new knowledge and adapts to new trends, technical solutions, and patterns that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale and shares knowledge with other engineers.
Qualifications
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 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 Qualifications:
- Experience in designing and running fault tolerant infrastructure services that run globally on a large scale
- Technical leadership experience managing services with high SLA requirements and live site criticality
- Experience building and growing teams
- Experience in any of the following areas: Layer 7 data plane, web proxies, distributed control plane, large scale web applications, networking services, system level component design or building security services
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