Group Software Engineer Manager

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.

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.

Responsibilities

• Deliver success through empowerment and accountability by modeling, coaching, and caring as a manager.
• Drive a cross-Microsoft strategy on validation at the hardware and operating systems level.
• Establish standards inside Microsoft and empower over a hundred teams to partner with us on this standard.
• Establish and maintain a culture prioritizing delivering high-quality products, services, and outputs for our validation services.
• Partner with stakeholders to set the product strategy for our validation services.
• Oversee overall system architecture of our validation service and establish processes to measure and ensure system architecture is effective.
• Understand the importance of security and design solutions which are highly secure to protect our internal services and customer data.
• Leverage subject-matter expertise of cross-product features with stakeholders to drive our validation service modernization plans.
• Hold 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 seek new knowledge and adapt to new trends, technical solutions, and patterns that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of our services.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
• OR equivalent experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 14+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including 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 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.

The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $165,600 – $296,400 per year.