Microsoft
Senior Software Engineering Manager
$120K–$261K
Redmond, WA · On-site · Manager · Full-time · Posted Jul 31, 2026
- Experience
- 4+ years technical engineering experience required; equivalent experience accepted. Preferred alternatives: Master's Degree and 6+ years technical engineering experience, or Bachelor's Degree and 8+ years technical engineering experience, or equivalent experience. Additional preferred experience includes 4+ years managing Linux and open source systems, 4+ years people management, and 6+ years with monitoring and observability tools.
- Education
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent experience.
About the job
Leads a team of Site Reliability Engineers responsible for the reliability, security, and operations of large-scale ad serving systems across on-premises and Azure environments.
What you'll do
- Lead SRE team operations, including uptime, resiliency, and fault tolerance.
- Guide observability, automation, incident response, scaling, failover, and continuous improvement.
- Partner with ML engineers and platform teams to improve developer experience and research-to-production workflows.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field and 4+ years of technical engineering experience coding in a listed language, or equivalent experience.
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements, including passing the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
Nice to have
- 4+ years managing Linux and open source systems; 4+ years people management experience.
- Experience with monitoring and observability tools, on-premises-to-public-cloud migrations, infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD pipelines, distributed systems, networking, and storage.
Pay
USD $119,800 - $234,700 per year (base salary); USD $160,200 - $261,000 per year (base salary)
Tools
Azure, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Python, Grafana
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