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Group Engineering Manager - Azure Service Fabric Team

Microsoft

Microsoft

Software Engineering, Other Engineering
Posted on Oct 31, 2025

Group Engineering Manager - Azure Service Fabric Team

Multiple Locations, Serbia

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Date posted
Oct 30, 2025
Job number
1901621
Work site
0 days / week in-office - remote
Travel
0-25 %
Role type
People Manager
Profession
Software Engineering
Discipline
Software Engineering
Employment type
Full-Time

Overview

Are you excited about cutting-edge hardware, low-level platform design, and distributed systems challenges at the core of hyperscale datacenters? Do you want to build end-to-end platform capabilities that empower next-generation workloads on the Microsoft cloud?

Azure Service Fabric is the core distributed systems platform at the foundation of critical Azure Infrastructure (like the Azure Control Plane) and customer facing services (like Azure SQL DB, Azure SQL MI, CosmosDB, Azure Container Instances, to name a few). It enables an environment to deploy microservices that run at scale and high availability, enabling low latency failovers, leader elections and highly available distributed Key-Value store for critical compute scenarios. The team is geo-distributed and is a critical foundation to enable new scenarios for Azure.

As a Group Engineering Manager in Azure Service Fabric, you will be leading a team delivering new capabilities in the areas of Security, Programming Models, Distributed KeyValue Store, Placement and Load Balancing and core System Services (which are at the heart of a Service Fabric Cluster). You will have the opportunity to work closely with multiple partners to build solutions that light up new experiences for their customers, build/grow expertise in highly available and secure distributed systems. This role offers flexible work opportunity where one can work from home partially.


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.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
    • OR equivalent experience.
  • 4+ years of people management experience, including managing managers.
  • 3+ years working on distributed transactional systems

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

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
    • OR related technical field AND 12+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript or Python
    • OR Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 10+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
    • OR equivalent experience.
  • 6+ years people management experience, including managing managers.
  • 5+ years working on distributed transactional systems

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Responsibilities

  • Oversees partnership with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project manager, technical lead) to determine user requirements within and across teams for multiple solutions or product lines.
  • Oversees teams and provides technical leadership for identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.
  • Optimizes, debugs, refactors, and reuses code to improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI).
  • Oversees teams to drive multiple group's project plans, release plans, and work items in coordination with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) across products.
  • Leads the resolution of complex site incidents and oversees for Designated Responsible Individuals (DRI) and directs the work of other engineers across product lines.
  • Keeps informed of and communicates new standards to ensure that the product development and scaling to customer requirements and applies best practices for meeting scaling needs and performance expectations and holds accountability for products that do not meet expectations.

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.
Industry leading healthcare
Educational resources
Discounts on products and services
Savings and investments
Maternity and paternity leave
Generous time away
Giving programs
Opportunities to network and connect

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 and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.