Development Lead, Principal

Job Category: Software Engineering: Development
Location: Redmond, WA, US
Job ID: 836703-111088
Division: Cloud and Enterprise Engineering

Imagine what it takes to deliver a cloud that billions of people rely on.

The Core Azure team develops Microsoft's cloud operating system: Windows Azure. The platform makes it easy for developers to build modern cloud services. It provides a rich app model with high-level abstractions for compute, storage, and networking, so developers can focus on their business logic, not the hardware and IT management details. At the same time, it must scale to millions of nodes and be highly available and fault tolerant.

We seek great development leads with a passion for developing talent, building healthy teams, leading cross-team efforts, and working on large-scale distributed systems. You could lead the development of the Update Engine that manages the upgrades of thousands of Core Azure services every week and enables A/B testing of releases. You could lead the Performance effort, building Analytics and Visualization systems that analyze terabytes of data to identify and solve complex problems spanning the Azure stack.

You will build expertise in engineering cloud services, lead highly visible projects, help advance our architecture, and work with technologies across the stack. You will also recruit strong talent and contribute to our long-term strategy. Being in the core, you will also have a multiplier effect, enabling many teams to build great services. The team is growing rapidly and must scale to ever-harder problems. We depend on our leaders to meet the challenges of tomorrow and are deeply committed to helping them grow.

The cloud will transform computing and enable the rapid growth of devices. Be part of that transformation!

Want to learn more? Check out these talks:
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Think you have what it takes? Contact us!

- Excellent management skills in growing talent and building healthy teams
- Strong leadership skills in defining vision/strategy and aligning teams across the organization
- Highly effective communication, collaboration, and influencing
- Mastery of solving hard problems in a self-directed, methodical, and data-driven manner
- Excellent large-scale systems engineering skills (C# and C/C++)
- Extensive experience in algorithms, large-scale systems, multi-threading, and optionally big data
- Maturity in applying good large-scale engineering practices
- At least eight years of experience in software engineering in the industry
- At least one year of experience as a people manager or two years as a technical lead
- Bachelor's degree or higher in CS or related fields

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