Principal Software Engineering Manager

If you are passionate about working on cutting edge new technology and looking to build a team ground up, with cultural values that put collaboration, growth mindset and people first, then this is the role for you.
The Azure Firmware Center of Excellence team is instrumental in defining and delivering operational success for Azure that exceeds our customer’s expectations. Our technology and innovations are globally available foundation of Azure Control plane that hosts services with the scale of Azure Compute / Bing / Skype / Azure Store / SQL, host millions of multiplayer gaming sessions and large-scale computational solutions.
Our teams are responsible for Firmware development of server, silicon and rack infrastructure design with a focus on innovation for Azure infrastructure for Microsoft and their customers.

If you are a seasoned engineering manager with passion for building highly reliable, scalable distributed systems; If you want hands-on services architecture experience and like to produce impact across a large number of systems; if you have a penchant to learn and utilize your broad skill set to produce great customer impact; then this opportunity is for you - Join the Azure Firmware Center of Excellence and help us envision and build technical solutions to power Azure.
This is expected to be a hands on role, where you will have the opportunity to build and lead your team of extremely talented engineers to deliver innovation at scale and own delivery of product to Azure datacenters.
You must have proficient C programing skills, with experience with SoC Architecture and Design, writing low level drivers, root causing issues at the intersection of multiple subsystems across firmware and hardware.
Responsibilities

Lead architecture, design, development and deployment of innovative Software and Cloud Services that deliver competitive advantage and contribute to scale our business growth.
Build and manage a team of high performing engineers with ability to motivate, build and retain talent
You will be involved with all phases of product development, from microarchitecture design through firmware architecture and development.
Build solid engineering plans, with bottoms up schedule, drive trade off, design decisions to meet top level schedule on time and with high quality.
Qualifications
10+ years of professional experience designing, developing large scale Embedded Software solutions
5+ years of professional experience leading and managing large engineering teams
Experience with working from early concept of SoC Architecture and design to shipping final product
MS in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent industry experience
Proven and demonstrable skills in C, C++ or Rust
Strong problem solving, debugging, and troubleshooting skills, advanced design, and development skills
Experienced with low level firmware development including bare metal/RTOS, drivers for peripherals such as PCIe, I2C, eMMC, SPI, USB, UARTs as well as Memory Management, Scheduling, Interrupts and multi-threading

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience with Implementation of Hardware/Firmware Security primitives and security protocols is a plus
Experience with Penetration testing also desirable

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.