Drives project planning, anticipates future goals, and ensures compliance with security requirements. Guides experimentation, deployment, live site maintenance, and incident response, ensuring safe and efficient operations. Integrates telemetry to monitor system behavior and improves designs based on analysis. Guides development tool selection and continuous integration in production. Ensures compliance with security and regulatory standards, mentors on learning and development, and advocates for best practices and security-informed engineering. In addition, this role has people management responsibilities including driving employee growth and development, executing projects, and managing performance.
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Responsibilities
Lead and develop the team. Model Microsoft’s leadership principles and foster an inclusive, accountable, learning-oriented culture. Coach engineers, support career growth, provide actionable feedback, and manage performance with clear expectations.
Set technical direction. Own architecture discussions and guide design decisions for email semantic indexing, including content processing, embedding generation, index updates, and integration with retrieval systems. Evaluate technologies and make thoughtful tradeoffs across quality, freshness, scalability, resiliency, and cost.
Deliver customer and business outcomes. Partner with product management and engineering stakeholders to clarify requirements, define success measures, and translate priorities into an executable roadmap. Lead planning, resource allocation, and dependency management, resolving cross-team issues to deliver end-to-end results.
Drive engineering excellence. Guide the team in building extensible, maintainable, secure, and high-performance software. Establish rigorous design and code reviews, comprehensive test strategies, security testing, and automation across development and CI/CD pipelines.
Own service health and operational readiness. Lead safe deployments, flighting, monitoring, incident response, and production debugging. Ensure clear live-site ownership, escalation paths, disaster recovery, and rollback plans. Use incident retrospectives to address root causes and prevent recurrence.
Improve quality through experimentation. Establish telemetry and evaluation practices to understand indexing behavior and downstream retrieval impact. Use feature flags, controlled experiments, and production signals to validate changes and guide investment.
Build security, privacy, and responsible AI into the platform. Apply least-access principles and ensure email content and derived indexes respect access controls and applicable data-handling requirements. Embed security monitoring, response readiness, AI safety, and compliance with privacy, accessibility, and regulatory requirements.
Advance AI-assisted engineering. Lead disciplined adoption of AI tools for development, testing, debugging, and operational workflows. Measure their effectiveness, maintain human accountability for quality, and help the team continuously improve its engineering practices.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications
Bachelor'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++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
OR equivalent experience.
Other Requirements
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 Qualifications
Master’s degree AND 8+ years technical engineering experience
OR Bachelor’s degree AND 12+ years experience.
4+ years of people management experience.
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Software Engineering M5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $142,800 - $274,800 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $188,000 - $304,200 per year.
- Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
- https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay
This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. 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 with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.
