Principal Software Engineering Manager

Azure AI Knowledge (Search) is looking for an engineering manager who is passionate about expanding the possibilities of how Search and AI can empower developers in Azure to deliver the next generation experiences. In this role, you'll be part of our long-term strategy to enable capabilities for AI Search in a fast-changing AI landscape . AI Search is Azure's Search-as-a-Service offering that delivers a highly scalable search backend enhanced with AI powered content and query understanding which enables advanced search and knowledge mining scenarios. AI search is at core of LLM revolution enabling RAG workflows for enterprise applications. In your new role you'll be helping us research, design and deliver new product capabilities, building cloud scale distributed systems, designing advanced release tooling, live site infrastructure, and new tooling to support the rapid growth of our global presence.

The Azure AI Search team is highly collaborative, data-oriented, and greatly values diversity of thought and ideas. As a team we have a strong track record of building industrial strength services infused with AI and used by tens of thousands of customers across the world. We are proud of what we build and how we build it and that our product powers numerous applications in this AI era. We run lean, obsess about customers, and use an evidence-based approach to decision making. We ship new bits continuously, so your work will impact customers in a few days, not months or years.

Our team consists of people from a wide variety of backgrounds as well as professional and life experiences. We maintain and grow that diversity what makes us better at building the best solutions for our customers while having a blast doing it! Core to our team culture is the belief that you must have a ‘people-first’ approach to sustainably building and running 24x7 cloud services.

This means we support each other to build things the right way, enjoy our vacation time, and take advantage of our paid parental leave!