Microsoft Azure’s core priority is to be world's most trusted, secure, and global cloud and a great place for people to work. Security and privacy are significant concerns for governments, enterprises and consumers using public cloud platforms. Our team is designing and building pioneering products and services that make strong security and privacy guarantees using techno legal frameworks for cloud users and regulatory authorities. These guarantees are achieved using cutting-edge technologies, emerging hardware such as Intel(r) SGX/AMD(r) SEV-SNP and lots of innovation. 

We are looking for a highly motivated engineering manager leading a diverse set of engineers with a hybrid first mindset and creating a thriving and learning culture in the team. This is a terrific opportunity to work with emerging technologies and steer the direction for products while collaborating across multiple organizations. Find out more about what we do at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/confidential-computing/overview. 

We are a fun-loving team and value a collaborative workplace. We offer tons of flexibility in the work location(Bengaluru, Noida and Hyderabad), work style and work hours. Confidential computing is an emerging technology, this is an opportunity to be part of this new paradigm with lots of scope to contribute alongside learning with great people on challenging problems.  

Responsibilities

You will lead the team building build solutions to guarantee confidentiality and privacy for customers of Azure. You will design frameworks for containers that leverage Trusted Execution Environments (TEE) in Azure and work with Microsoft Research, different product teams, regulatory bodies and open-source communities to architect, design, implement and validate end to end solutions. 

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This is a SWE manager role with tons of executive visibility, deep technical impact, product innovation and culture role model with opportunity for advancement. The role involves application of distributed system fundamentals, systems experience, problem solving and growth mindset to create simple solutions to complex engineering problems. The job requires cross group collaborations, so you will need to love that kind of work and be proficient at creating and maintaining warm and productive working relationships with other teams. You will play a key role in mentoring and growing junior members of the team.  

 You will also:  

• Bring clarity, create energy, and drive results – you will set a vision, rally the team behind it, and deliver for our customers.  

• Demonstrate the Microsoft manager attributes of model, coach, and care with the engineers on your team, so they all learn, grow, and succeed.  
• Plan and prioritize work for your team, including collaborating with partner organizations.  
• Create an inclusive environment that attracts and retains high-performing engineers.  

Qualifications

You must possess the following attributes:  

• 5+ years of experience with systems programming with distributed systems design experience 
• 10+ years of professional work experience, including 2+ years of managing software engineers 
• Demonstrated problem solving and debugging skills  
• A bachelor’s degree or higher in computer science or related discipline, or equivalent relevant work experience  

These attributes are preferred:   

• Experience with containerized software, Kubernetes & OCI runtime Internals 
• Knowledge / experience with virtualization & confidential computing technology 
• Experience with security-oriented projects 
• Basic cryptography and low-level system knowledge 

If you are enthusiastic about leading a team which is defining Azure’s vision and excited about confidential computing, come join us!  

 Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.  

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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