Microsoft | Principal Engineering Manager | Redmond, WA | Fulltime | Onsite
https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/job/671627/Principal-Eng...
Microsoft understands the complexity of work management and is committed to providing software and services that help our customers manage through all of that complexity. Project and Planner are key to our company’s long-term work management strategy and our engineering team delivers a range of customer-ready apps and services at scale while working to ensure we deliver a coherent task experience spanning all of Microsoft software and service endpoints (Dynamics, ToDo, Teams etc).
Responsibilities
The Project and Planner team, part of the Office organization, is seeking to hire an Engineering Manager to lead the team responsible for our core Project Scheduling Engine and the Windows Project client. As a leader of this team:
You will manage a team of experienced engineers as part of larger Work Management investments.
You will be responsible for delivering a highly reliable, secure and performant scheduling component underpinning Microsoft’s Project Management Cloud services.
You will also own all aspects of engineering and shipping our Windows Project Client application in partnership with the larger Office engineering team.
You will be part of a standalone business where engineering work is tightly bound to our business and growth priorities and objectives.
You will use customer feedback to drive improvement and innovation in our products and ensure that customers are succeeding with our software and services.
Qualifications
Applications should have 2+ years of experience managing a software engineering team as well as a passion for C++, for solving complex problems and for delivering quality results.
Basic Qualifications:
A Master’s degree (or a Bachelor’s degree with 5+ years of work experience equivalent) in computer science or a related field.
7+ years of experience with coding in C and C++
7+ years of experience creating, shipping and evolving large commercial software components or products at scale.
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