Principal Director Software Engineering

Core Services Engineering builds and manages critical products and services that Microsoft runs on. We boldly pursue big ideas that power transformational advances at Microsoft and for our customers, while helping Microsoft teams work smarter, faster and more securely every day. Core Services Engineering employees have deep technical and business expertise, customer insights, and a clear point of view that comes from first-hand, large-scale experience with Microsoft and industry solutions. We are engineers, technology leaders and experts, digital transformation change agents, and customer advocates. We have exciting opportunities for you to innovate, influence, transform, inspire and grow within our organization and we encourage you to apply to learn more!

Do you want to work on cutting edge cloud technologies and transform service delivery with DevOps? Do you want to be part of the team that builds systems and services that run Microsoft’s business? Do you have the engineering skills, attention to details and quality, passion for building cloud systems and services at massive scale and speed? Do you want to be part of a diverse, fast paced and highly technical team that takes pride in delivering mission critical business intelligence on time with quality in an agile cadence?

If your answer is “YES” to all of them, congratulations! You are a prospective candidate for the Engineering team in Corporate Function Engineering (CFE) Organization.

Our teams are seeking a Principal Director of Software Engineering to lead the transformation of one of the largest most critical systems for Microsoft. With the massive growth of Azure and the rest of Microsoft’s cloud revenue the need to report on it is exploding. You will have the opportunity to design and develop the modernization of the core management and revenue reporting system for the company, used daily by executives at the highest level. You will design and develop services at massive scale, innovating on the latest technologies to showcase that even the most complicated large-scale systems can be built on Azure. The best candidate will have not only excellence software engineering leadership skills but also a background in and deep understanding of finance and financial systems/services.

As a Principal Director of Software Engineering in the Finance space, you will be responsible for building and managing a large, strong engineering team chartered to implement world class financial services. Core responsibilities would be to lead software engineering managers & multiple teams to design, implement and deploy great technical solutions for running Microsoft core finances. Deploying and supporting features that enable our mission critical business partners. You will develop software and services at scale, innovating on the latest technologies (Cloud, Big Data, Security Software and services) while engineering for automated testing, continuous integration & deployment as well as instrumenting telemetry that helps us monitor our service and helps diagnose and resolve issues quickly. You will work closely with peers across teams to help build flexible and high-performing services that enable the next generation of business services.

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