Principal Software Engineering Manager

We are Azure Data, a Microsoft team that drives the future of data processing in the Microsoft Cloud. Our software development team, located in Belgrade, is building some of the most advanced and widely used data processing cloud services in the world. The services we build are based on groundbreaking technology and are global market leaders, with millions of active users, and applications ranging from small shops to large mission critical business workloads. Each service provides the benefits of automated database management: patching, backups, high-availability, security, and many more.

Azure Database for PostgreSQL is a database service based on PostgreSQL technology, the most popular open-source DB tech in the world. Applications can enjoy the richness of PostgreSQL surface area developed by the ecosystem, such as JSONB, geospatial support, rich indexing and dozens of extensions, while also enjoying the benefits of a fully-managed cloud service: fast scaling, intelligent performance tuning, and automated security.

Our PostgreSQL Engineering team is on a mission to redefine the future of cloud-native PostgreSQL by building
a modern, serverless database platform that delivers continuous availability, high performance, and seamless scalability
. We are investing in foundational improvements across core PostgreSQL components, engineering practices, and tooling—spanning automation, observability, and intelligent diagnostics—while embracing both proven techniques and cutting-edge innovations. We collaborate closely with open-source communities, Linux kernel contributors, and internal Azure engineering teams to push the boundaries of what PostgreSQL can achieve in the cloud. You will have the opportunity to contribute to open-source PostgreSQL and Linux, and\or develop extensions. Experience with both is preferable.

Responsibilities

• Product and Service Design:

• Builds the right products and services to deliver intended value to the customer and to meet the required business objectives. Makes decisions deeply rooted in customer insights (data-driven) and in understanding overall business goals.

• Technical Design and Implementation:

• Develops high-quality code to meet technical requirements, such as scale, global delivery, and implementation across distributed systems, monitoring, serviceability, testability, debugging and maintenance. Builds the associated tests to validate the code both at the unit level and end-to-end level.

• Quality Code and Validation:

• Creates and validates efficient (low-latency, high-throughput), stable, secure, maintainable, performant, well-tested, and reusable code that enables customer and business goals for the product or service. Builds the correct tests and tools to validate that the code meets quality goals or service. Ensures that quality is maintained throughout the entire life of the product or service.

• Engineering Lifecycle:

• Uses, defines, and improves coding and testing practices, processes, tools, infrastructure, and standards that produce the expected product or service outcomes for Microsoft and the customers.

• Effective Team:

• Acts constructively within the team context to increase the efficiency, impact, and morale of the team, as a whole. Works proactively across team, product, service or platform boundaries to share information and technology, and ensure that peer-team goals are aligned. Mentors others and proactively seeks mentorship from others.

• Product and Service Ownership:

• Consistently and strongly demonstrates a sense of personal accountability for the quality and completeness of the entire product or service, and resulting user experience. Maintains a sense of pride and craftsmanship that in the products that we ship.

• Manager Priorities:

• Build a diverse team with capabilities needed to achieve current and future business objectives. Drive the development of existing employees while bringing in new external and internal talent.

• Create an inclusive work environment where every employee can effectively engage, and wants to be part of the team. Provide ongoing feedback that helps your direct reports improve their performance.
• Leverage resources to help employees develop skills and support their career interests.
• Effectively communicate business strategy and goals and how they align to the team's work. Plan the team's work to achieve goals and respond effectively to changing priorities.
• Hold the team and individuals accountable for results and award them appropriately.
• Partner and collaborate with other teams on related deliverables, and effectively leverage the work of others when possible.
• Through behaviors and actions, role model the Microsoft values and the Microsoft culture.

Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science or a related technical field
• 8+ years of software design and development experiences
• Experience in people and project management with strong technical leadership
• Solid Experience driving architecture/design/implementation and delivery of great user experiences
• Experience with large scale services, distributed systems
• Experience with Linux and containers
• Excellent communication and cross team collaboration skill
• Excellent system design and problem-solving skills
• Experience optimizing automation, reliability, and monitoring of live services
• Passionate about user experience and user facing features
• Experience with cloud technologies (Azure/AWS/GCP) is considered a bonus

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, 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 and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.