Microsoft

Group Software Engineer Manager

Microsoft • $165K — $296K *
Redmond, WA 98052In-Person
Information Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
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Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field and 8+ years of technical engineering experience in languages such as C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
  • 8+ years of people management experience is required.
  • Experience with hardware and operating systems integration and bringing new hardware products to market.
  • Demonstrated experience in building and shipping production-grade software or services.
  • Proven track record of designing, deploying, and operating large-scale services with high availability.

Responsibilities

  • Model and coach team members to deliver success through empowerment and accountability.
  • Drive a Microsoft-wide strategy on validation at hardware and operating systems level.
  • Establish and maintain standards that empower over 100 teams to collaborate on validation efforts.
  • Cultivate a culture dedicated to delivering high-quality products and services for validation.
  • Partner with stakeholders to define product strategy for validation services.
  • Oversee system architecture of validation services and establish processes to ensure scalability and requirements are met.
  • Design highly secure solutions to protect internal services and customer data.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health coverage including medical, dental, and vision plans.
  • Retirement savings options with company matching.
  • Generous paid time off policies, including vacation and sick leave.
  • Access to professional development and training opportunities.
  • Flexible work arrangements to promote work-life balance.
Full Job Description
Overview

Windows + Devices powers experiences for over a billion users worldwide. The Windows Engineering System team is the backbone that enables Windows engineers to design, build, validate, and ship at scale-securely and with high quality.

The Quality & Validation team focuses on building engineering systems and delivering quality and validation services to be utilized by all these Windows products. We develop and manage scalable software services which use the power of automation and AI to provide this service to our Windows partner teams.

As a Group Software Engineer Manager you will be responsible for defining the strategy and directing the modernization and securing of our validation services. You should be passionate about quality, scale, and cloud services. Focusing on system and security fundamentals you will have the opportunity to drive quality improvements broadly across Windows. You will partner across divisions to connect with our customers and understand their technical needs and propose standards to build world-class engineering systems. You will be responsible for driving a Microsoft-wide strategy on validation at the hardware and operating systems level. You will lead establishing standards inside Microsoft and empowering collaboration across many teams.

Responsibilities
  • As a manager, deliver success through empowerment and accountability by modeling, coaching, and caring.
  • Driving a cross Microsoft strategy on validation at the hardware and operating systems level.
  • Establishing standards inside Microsoft and empowering over a hundred teams to partner with us on this standard.
  • Establishes and maintains a culture prioritizing delivering high quality products, services, and outputs for our validation services
  • Partners with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project manager, technical lead) to set the product strategy for our validation services.
  • Oversees overall system architecture of our validation service. Establishes processes to measure and ensure system architecture is effective and meets the current and future needs and requirements of the service.
  • Understands the importance of security and designs solutions which are highly secure to protect our internal services and customer data.
  • Leverages subject-matter expertise of cross-product features with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to drive our validation service modernization plans.
  • Holds accountability as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI), mentoring engineers on the team, 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 our services while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale and shares knowledge with other engineers.


Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications:
  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ 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:
  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 14+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
    • OR Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 12+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
    • OR equivalent experience.
  • 8+ years people management experience.
  • Experience with hardware and OS bring up, bringing new hardware to market.
  • Experience building and shipping production grade software or services.
  • A track record of designing, deploying, and operating large scale services with high availability.
  • Postmortem analysis and authoring for live site issues.
  • Experience with build systems, and validation systems for hardware, software, and cloud services.


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Software Engineering M6 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $165,600 - $296,400 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $220,800 - $331,200 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

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Microsoft is an American multinational corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services. Microsoft’s devices and consumer (D&C) licensing segment licenses the Windows operating system and related software, Microsoft Office for consumers, and the Windows Phone operating system. The company’s computing and gaming hardware segment provides Xbox gaming and entertainment consoles and accessories, second-party and third-party video games, and Xbox Live subscriptions; surface devices and accessories; and Microsoft PC accessories. Its phone hardware segment offers Lumia smartphones and other non-Lumia phones. Its D&C segment provides Windows Store, Xbox Live transactions, and Windows phone store; search advertising; display advertising; Office 365 Home and Office 365 Personal; first-party video games; and other consumer products and services as well as operating retail stores. Microsoft’s commercial licensing segments license server products, including Windows Server, Microsoft SQL Server, Visual Studio, System Center, and related Client Access Licenses (CALs); Windows Embedded; Windows operating system; Microsoft Office for business, including Office, Exchange, SharePoint, Lync, and related CALs; Microsoft Dynamics business solutions; and Skype. Its commercial segment offers enterprise services, including premier support services and Microsoft consulting services; commercial cloud comprising Office 365 Commercial, other Microsoft Office online offerings, Dynamics CRM Online, and Microsoft Azure; and other commercial products and online services. The company markets and distributes its products through original equipment manufacturers, distributors, and resellers, as well as online.

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Size
181,000 employees
Market Cap
$1,762.4 billion
Industry
Enterprise Technology
Net Income
$51.3 billion
Founded
1975
5 Year Trend
+15.5%
Revenue
$153.2 billion
NASDAQ
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