Join the Microsoft Shopping team, where we deliver smart shopping experience with personalization, savings, transparency, and convenience, giving confidence in every purchase. In a world where the thrill of finding the perfect item can quickly turn into disappointment, Microsoft Shopping is your personal shopping companion. We understand the highs and lows of shopping, and we believe it should always be an enjoyable and rewarding experience. We are dedicated to helping you make informed decisions that align perfectly with your needs and desires. At Microsoft Shopping, we are committed to empowering our customers to shop smarter and discover what they love. If you are passionate about transforming shopping experiences and leading a team to achieve greatness, the role is for you. **With the power of AI, we are building the best-in-class shopping experiences span across all surfaces on Copilot, Edge, MSN and Bing.** Your leadership will drive innovation and ensure the team is aligned with Microsoft Shopping vision. This position offers a unique blend of leadership, innovation, and strategic influence, allowing you to make a significant impact on both the team and the overall shopping experience at Microsoft Shopping. As a **Principal Software Engineering Manager** in Microsoft Shopping team, you will lead your team to build highly scalable, available, and secure services that powers shopping experience across surfaces. You will be accountable for delivery of features shipped by your team, building and retaining talent. You will provide vision for the services you own, develop strategy aligning with stake holders and develop execution plans to successfully deliver team's commitments. Your primary responsibilities include architecting, designing, coding and operationalizing services at hyper scale. Produce crisp designs with tradeoffs, present and gather stake holder consensus. Guide other engineers by following established design and coding patterns, be the bar riser. Identify and drive dependencies for given services and features. Drive architecture improvements to reduce operational burden on services and team. Improve availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products at scale. Crisply plan and communicate feature delivery schedule, risks. Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond. **Responsibilities** + Coaches the team to deliver success through empowerment and accountability. Establishes clear objectives and outcomes; Enables success across boundaries + Helps the team adapt and learn. + Attracts and retains great talent; Knows each individual’s capabilities and aspirations, Invests in the growth of others. + Guides partnership with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements within and across teams. + Guides team to drive multiple group's project plans, release plans, and work items in coordination with appropriate stakeholders. + Creates proposals for strategy, architecture and design documents and gets buy-in for proposed solutions. + Guides team in creating clear and articulated plan for development, testing, deploying, monitoring and defines success for success. + Guides teams and leads identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform. + Guides team within and across teams in producing extensible, and maintainable code. Leads efforts to operationalize at scale by reducing incident volume, looking globally at incidences and providing broad resolutions. **Qualifications** **Required Qualifications:** + Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline 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. + 3+ years of experience in people management, demonstrating the ability to lead and influence across teams. + Experience in designing, developing and operating large-scale backend services.   + Experience in computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, distributed systems, information retrieval. **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:** + Ability to communicate technical details clearly across organizational boundaries.   + Experience in DevOps to maintain live services and\or application frameworks.   + Analytical skills with a systematic and structured approach to software design.   + Experience with or exposure to Agile and iterative development processes.   \#Cairo #Engineering Manager #Microsoft #Shopping #Backend #AI #MicrosoftAI Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. 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