Microsoft · 8 hours ago
Senior Software Engineering Manager - Virtualization & Kernel
United States
Full-time
Remote
Mid, Senior Level
$120K/yr - $235K/yr
4+ years expMicrosoft is seeking a Software Engineering M4 to contribute to high-performance hypervisor technologies and kernel features. The role involves guiding a team responsible for Microsoft's virtualization platform, focusing on collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement in engineering practices.
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No H1B
U.S. Citizen Only
Responsibilities
Coaches team on producing extensible, maintainable, well-tested, secure, and performant code that adheres to design specifications. Continuously improves code performance, testability, maintainability, effectiveness, and cost, while learning about and accounting for relevant trade-offs. Applies metrics to drive code quality and stability. Applies appropriate coding patterns and best practices. Leads by example in best code-writing practices (e.g., leveraging state-of-the-art generative artificial intelligence [GenAI], approaches to source code organization, naming conventions). Coaches team on identifying and escalating blockers or unknowns during the development process, communicating how they will impact timelines, and identifying strategies and/or opportunities to address them
Coaches teams on and identifies dependencies and incorporates them into the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform. Actively identifies other teams and technologies to leverage, how they interact, and where their own system or team can support others. Coaches team to understand upstream and downstream interactions between systems and ensure security, compliance, performance, and reliability can be achieved across the entire stack. Collaborates with other teams to reach common goals where dependencies and validation concerns overlap. Works across teams to resolve conflicts around dependency and required work
Remains current by investing time and effort into being informed of current developments. Seeks new knowledge, evaluating new trends, technical solutions, and patterns, assessing how to adapt them to current problems, and shares knowledge with other engineers. Trains team on conducting learning and literary sessions to raise awareness on relevant engineering design principles (e.g., security, testability, performance, scalability, accessibility, product knowledge)
Coaches team on driving multiple groups' project plans, release plans, and work items in coordination with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., technical program managers). Breaks down long-term project vision into milestones. Guides other members on project estimation. Anticipates future goals to guide future resources. Reviews and implements resources in response to changing context. Coaches team on ensuring required security protections and detection processes are accounted for in planning. Coaches team on ensuring project plans adhere to security, privacy, and compliance requirements. Coaches team on ensuring all code for a product/solution is properly flighted for quicker mitigation of production incidents
Managers deliver success through empowerment and accountability by modeling, coaching, and caring. Model: Live our culture. Embody our values. Practice our leadership principles. Coach: Define team objectives and outcomes. Enable success across boundaries. Help the team adapt and learn. Care: Attract and retain great people. Know each individual’s capabilities and aspirations. Invest in the growth of others
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, or Rust OR equivalent experience
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
Master'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++, or Rust OR Bachelor'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++, or Rust OR equivalent experience
2+ years people management experience
2+ years technical engineering experience working on part of an operating system (including but not limited to Linux or Windows), a virtual machine manager (VMM) or a related accelerator stack, or hypervisor
1+ years incident management experience
Company
Microsoft
Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
10001+ employees
Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$1MKey Investors
Technology Venture Investors
2022-12-09Post Ipo Equity
1986-03-13IPO
1981-09-01Series Unknown· $1M
Leadership Team
Satya Nadella
Chairman and CEO
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