Job Description

The Edge Device Services team works on massive-scale cloud services that securely distributes software content to billions of Windows and Linux devices. Our technology empowers customers around the world to keep their devices up to date and secure. This is a technically challenging area where the team is continually pushed to innovate on multiple fronts - from scale to performance to security to peer-to-peer delivery to new customer scenarios. If you want to work on innovative, highly-available, and massively scalable services, this is the right team for you!

We are looking for creative and diverse thinkers and leaders, people who care about customers, scenarios, and features. We also believe that how we do things is as important as what we do. Big vision, a common purpose, desire to drive innovation, passion for quality and agility, and contribution in others' success are what lead to great impact in our team.

We are looking for an exceptional engineering leader for our on-line services team. In this role, you will take our distribution services forward as we modernize and scale out to new software publishers and new scenarios with a particular focus on keeping enterprises up to date and secure on premise, on Azure, and even in air-gapped scenarios. This position offers you opportunity to lead and grow a dedicated team of high-caliber individuals, and work across groups and disciplines - with all the impact and recognition that comes with a role of that scope.

* Provide leadership for a team of engineers working on update and distribution services
* Hire, retain and grow talent
* Maintain an unwavering focus on Quality of Service
* Define the vision and roadmap for the team
* Drive architectural and engineering excellence
* Work across teams and other groups in Microsoft to solve software distribution challenges particularly for enterprise customers

Basic Qualifications:

* 10+ years of software development experience
* 3+ years of managing software engineers
* Experience with .Net and C
* Passion for working with customers and advocating their requirements to be met by features and SLAs

The ideal candidate will have experience with:

* Proven experience in leading product development
* Demonstrated strong architectural design skills at scale
* Seasoned manager who can attract and grow senior talent
* Experience with large scale and high availability services
* Strong communication and ability to work/influence across teams
* Expertise in software distribution or enterprise management

Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

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