Principal Engineering Manager
Microsoft is a company where passionate innovators come to collaborate, envision what can be and take their careers further. This is a world of more possibilities, more innovation, more openness, and the sky is the limit thinking in a cloud-enabled world.
Microsoft’s Azure Data engineering team is leading the transformation of analytics in the world of data with products like databases, data integration, big data analytics, messaging & real-time analytics, and business intelligence. The products our portfolio include Microsoft Fabric, Azure SQL DB, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure PostgreSQL, Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Service Bus, Azure Event Grid, and Power BI. Our mission is to build the data platform for the age of AI, powering a new class of data-first applications and driving a data culture.
Within Azure Data, the business intelligence team builds and maintains Power BI which is the undisputed leader in BI tool in the industry today and serves as the bridge between data professionals & Office users. Power BI’s core value proposition is to enable end users to get answers & insights from their data through data visualization.
Within Power BI, this role as a Principal Engineering Manager will lead an established team of 8-10 software engineers spanning from new-to-career to experienced. As an agile and largely full-stack team, you'll have the opportunity to own scenarios end-to-end, working closely across product management, design & engineering. Designing UX experiences and the middle & backend services to power them. Building off Microsoft's leadership in artificial Intelligence, the focus is on applying LLM's and machine learning patterns to enable natural language interactions with all types of data.
We do not just value differences or different perspectives. We seek them out and invite them in so we can tap into the collective power of everyone in the company. As a result, our customers are better served.
Requirements
Required/Minimum Qualifications
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
OR equivalent experience.
2+ years people management experience.
3+ years experience with large scale, highly distributed systems, including distributed caching, active-active patterns, monitoring & alerting.
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/Additional Qualifications
Master'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 Bachelor'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.
Experience developing on or with AI, including prompt engineering, familiarity with RAG patterns & vector databases
Experience with business intelligence products such as Power BI, Tableau including data engineering, modelling and reporting
Familiarity with large scale, highly distributed systems, including distributed caching, active-active patterns, monitoring & alerting
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