Software Engineering Manager

Software Engineering Manager

Azure is Microsoft’s central cloud infrastructure, supporting both public cloud offerings and a wide range of internal, cloud-scale services. As cloud computing continues to grow rapidly and remain highly competitive, Azure aims to lead across all dimensions of its platform and services. Within Azure, the Azure Compute team is responsible for hosting virtual machines (VMs), containers, and other workloads that power this infrastructure.

A key discipline in cloud computing is capacity management. This involves ensuring that sufficient capacity is available across all regions, allocation domains, and hardware infrastructure to meet customer demand, while also provisioning resources efficiently to avoid unnecessary costs and capital expenditures (CAPEX). At Azure’s scale, managing this balance across the entire compute fleet is a complex challenge—one where even small improvements can significantly impact customer satisfaction and cost savings.

As a Software Engineering Manager on the Azure Compute Capacity and Efficiency (AC2E) team, you will lead efforts to manage capacity and efficiency across the platform. Our goal is to deliver a fully automated and optimized tracking and management system, with the Capacity Management Automation System (CMAS) at its core. This system leverages advanced algorithms and artificial intelligence to predict capacity risks and implement mitigation strategies directly within the Azure Compute platform. You will collaborate with engineers, program managers, and data scientists to define business problems and deliver end-to-end solutions. Your leadership will help shape strategic decisions, improve service fulfillment, and drive efficiency metrics such as cost of goods sold (COGS) reduction. The team applies techniques like anomaly detection, machine learning, and experimentation to solve real-world challenges at scale.

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