About the job
The “Magic” team is responsible for building amazing experiences, breaking down language barriers, and delivering premium content to 2 billion people every year. Serving this many customers is a huge responsibility and a rare opportunity. Every single day you will get the chance to deploy code into large scale services that power experiences across billions of devices. Moreover, we are using the latest advances in AI and ML to drive intelligence into these experiences to make them engaging, personalized, and relevant. Stunningly cool and ground-breaking work.
We are searching for future Microsoft leaders who want to lead engineering teams to build distributed systems at hyperscale using the latest technologies. We have several roles open within the team across our portfolio of localization and content services. Backend engineering, frontend engineering, data engineering, etc. – we are hiring across all specialty areas. You will work in a small team of world-class engineers to build, extend, and modernize our services so that we can serve the world in localizing and delivering amazing M365 content to help customers achieve and do more.
You will have a unique opportunity to work with the latest cloud technologies and develop scalable Azure services using a mix of in-house and open-source technologies. This role has strong executive sponsorship, a lot of cross group work with other teams, and opportunity for technical leadership and advancement. Moreover, we are looking for someone not only technically strong but also collaborative and willing to contribute to the success of others. We have a strong culture internally and win as a team.
Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.
Responsibilities
- Deliver success through empowerment and accountability by modelling, coaching, and caring.
- Guide and coach teams to design architecture and integrated solutions. Reviews design documents and architecture proposals.
- Work with architects and technical partners to develop architecture requirements.
- Guide teams to deliver services that facilitates the translation the needs of the organization and other teams into program goals and prioritized deliverables.
- Coach teams to define success criteria and performance metrics (e.g., Objectives and Key Results [OKRs], Key Performance Indicators [KPIs] such as quality and performance) of the feature(s)/feature areas.
- Provide technical leadership for engineers across multiple teams.
- Design and develop large scale distributed services and solutions.
- Develop “best-in-class” engineering for our services by ensuring that the services and the components are well-defined, modularized, secure, reliable, testable, diagnosable, actively monitored, and reusable.
- Work closely with our internal/external partners to support the team’s mission.
- Balance pragmatism with vision; deliver continuous improvements to the team’s process and codebase.
- Build automation to prevent and/or remediate service problems from becoming production incidents.
- Gain a working understanding of Microsoft businesses and collaborate with mentors and leaders to contribute to cohesive, end-to-end experiences for our users.
- Lead teams to form hypotheses to technical needs, perform experiments, and iterate to drive improvement in specific performance metrics that have measurable impact.
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline
- Technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
- OR equivalent experience.
- Experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development.
- People management experience.
- Experience in managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.
- Experience with cloud technologies, including Infrastructure as a Service, Application as a Service, and Platform as a Service.
- Experience in scalable service design and implementation.
- Experience delivering complicated technical solutions involving cross-group teamwork.
- Experience with all aspects of the back end, including web services, relational databases, document databases and data access technologies.
- Experience working with Large Language models is a bonus.
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