Principal Software Engineering Manager
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Texas, Irving | |
| 7000 State Highway 161 (Show on map) | |
 Jul 24, 2025 | |
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OverviewMicrosoft Azure is the world's foundry for innovation and excellence!We are part of the Azure networking team responsible for designing, building, and operating network connectivity, application load balancing, and security services. These services include: Azure ExpressRoute, Virtual Private Network (VPN), Azure, Firewall, Azure Bastion, Azure Application Gateway, Application Gateway for Containers, Web Application Firewall (WAF), Azure Virtual Wide Area Network (Virtual WAN), and Virtual Network Functions (VNF) platform. At the core of these services is a solid Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) infrastructure that we continuously innovate on to improve the agility, reliability, and cost-effectiveness of our services. Our team's innovations are well recognized in the cloud industry.Our culture promotes diversity and inclusion and is clearly reflected in all the things that we do. Diversity is more than a commitment for us - it is the foundation of what we do. This is a high visibility position in an area of large and expanding investment for Azure and offers a terrific opportunity to innovate, influence, transform, and grow. We encourage you to apply to learn more!We are looking for an Principal Software Engineering Manager, to lead a team of talented engineers, to design, build and operate this fast-paced service. If you are an experienced engineering lead with a track record of delivering high quality services, passion to build and grow people, excitement to operate in a startup culture while delivering services with enterprise level maturity, this is a great opportunity for you to take the next step in your career (experienced individual contributors are encouraged to apply). We own entire services end-to-end from user facing interface to management plane and all the way down to data path implementation.Azure Application Gateway is changing the landscape of how customers manage, secure and scale their applications while ensuring trusted and fast connectivity to their network. There is an exciting roadmap ahead to provide the best application delivery experience as well as the opportunity to shape future of this service.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.
ResponsibilitiesEngineering Leads in Azure Networking are responsible for design, development, testing, deployment and operations of critical services.Engineering Leads own developing the services as well as the engineering team by coaching and mentoring the team members within the team in producing extensible and maintainable code.Lead the innovation around architecture, design and coding by bringing in their expertise and out-of-box thinking. They also get opportunity to manage project timelines and define vision of the product working closely with product managers, leads and partners.Coaches others and acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and guides other engineers across products, working on call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions.Seeks new knowledge 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.Other:Embody our Culture and Values | |