We are looking for a Principal Software Engineering Manager to help us deliver highly scalable capacity management services and world-class platform capacity experience from our Belgrade, Serbia offices. As part of this work, you and your team will have opportunities to work both on the most fundamental layers of the Azure Control Plane's technology stack including the Azure Allocator, as well as on Azure's central capacity services, such as Compute Capacity Central (CCC) and the Azure Compute Management and Automation System (CMAS). You will also work on highly efficient and customer-friendly capacity reservation services, customer workload deployment support, and you will build key platform capabilities to enhance Azure's end-to-end capacity management excellence. In addition to the public cloud offerings, the Azure platform also hosts global-scale Microsoft-internal services such as Microsoft Teams, Office, Bing, SQL, and so forth. The customer's capacity experience plays a critical role in the success of Azure, and we seek to further invest in this area by building a new team of experts in Serbia – software engineers, data engineers, and data scientists – to drive important initiatives to further enhance Azure's platform capacity management capabilities, and our customer's capacity experience. Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. 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. Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND strong technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience. Proven experience in building, managing and/or leading an engineering team. Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND extensive technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience. 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. Design and develop distributed cloud software services and solutions that are engineered for scale, availability, high performance, and high reliability. # Own and deliver complete features including design, architecture, implementation, testability, debugging, and shipping. # Lead the refinement of products through data analytics and make informed decisions in engineering products through data integration. # Deliver high quality of service to Azure customers through live-site excellence. # Found and build a new Serbia-based team of software engineers, data engineers, and possibly data scientists. Opportunities to network and connect #