2 days ago
Base Salary
$120k - $304k/yr
Responsibilities
- Set organization-level technical direction for production services and developer experiences across product and service boundaries.
- Lead adoption and continuous improvement of AI-assisted engineering tools and Responsible AI practices across the software development lifecycle.
- Improve engineering quality through automation, analysis, debugging, telemetry, retrospectives, and reusable engineering mechanisms.
- Strengthen security, privacy, reliability, diagnosability, least-privilege practices, incident prevention, rollback, disaster recovery, and operational readiness.
- Mentor technical leaders and raise engineering standards, velocity, quality, and operational discipline across the organization.
- Lead cross-group planning, estimation, capacity planning, milestone definition, scope negotiation, tradeoff resolution, and execution adjustment.
- Partner with developers, customers, and stakeholders to translate feedback, usage data, and success metrics into prioritized product improvements.
- Influence technical strategy and product direction across teams without formal authority.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field and 4+ years of technical engineering experience building and operating cloud services, or equivalent experience.
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements, including the Microsoft Cloud Background Check.
- Preferred: 4+ years of technical leadership and architecture experience at product scope.
- Preferred: experience owning end-to-end customer and developer experiences, including requirements definition and delivery.
- Preferred: experience with distributed systems and engineering systems.
- Preferred: experience designing and delivering secure services, including identity/access patterns and privacy and compliance considerations.
- Preferred: experience leading AI-assisted engineering tools and responsible use of AI-generated assets across an organization.
- Preferred: strong customer empathy and experience using qualitative and quantitative feedback to iterate product experiences.
- Preferred: ability to create significant impact within intricate codebases and large organizations.
- Preferred: experience building AI-powered product capabilities and/or search, retrieval, or data/knowledge services at scale.
Benefits
- Base pay is listed for multiple U.S. work-location ranges; eligible roles may also receive benefits and other compensation.
- The position is open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until filled.
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About Microsoft
Microsoft develops operating systems, productivity software, cloud services, developer tools, and consumer devices for individuals, enterprises, and governments. Its main products include Windows, Microsoft 365, Azure, Visual Studio/GitHub, Xbox, and LinkedIn; revenue comes from software subscriptions and licenses, cloud consumption, hardware sales, and advertising. Founded in 1975 and headquartered in Redmond, Washington, Microsoft is a public company traded on Nasdaq.