Billions of users. Billions of dollars. Millions of products. Planet-wide reach. Sell everything: apps, games, hardware. It's Microsoft Marketplace Services. If you are excited by working on software at the scale of one of the largest online marketplaces in the world then this is your dream job. The Core Commerce Platform team is developing some of Microsoft's largest scale and business critical cloud services. These services have a huge global footprint of over 240 markets and process millions of transactions daily, with loads growing linearly as Microsoft moves to a "cloud first", "mobile first" strategy. The platform powers all of Microsoft's key services - Windows App Store, XBOX, Bing Ads, Office 365, Azure to name just a few. Whether renting a movie or buying a game on Xbox LIVE, purchasing an app on a Windows, signing up for an Office 365 subscription or paying for Azure services, you are using our platform. We are the Catalog and Fulfillment team and are responsible for the services
We expect an SRE Lead on the team to: 1. Be a great manager, mentor, and leader of the team and broader organization. You will manage a team of between 5 and 8 developers. 2. Be a great process engineer. You will be accountable to the design, implementation, schedule, delivery, of your team's services. Doing this in an efficient way is a must. 3. Earn the technical respect of the people on your team. This is a technical position and the ideal candidate should be capable of working in the code, supporting the service, and understanding at a detailed level how the software works. 4. Be the software
Required Qualifications: • 7+ years demonstrated experience in designing and developing enterprise-level internet scale services/solutions. • Strong design and programming skills in C# or Java. • Experience leading and influencing virtual teams of developers to deliver global, highly available, highly scalable services. • Understanding and experience in Machine Learning a plus. • Expert hands-on software development expertise including object-oriented design skills, .NET etc. • Excellent analytical skills • Excellent communication skills, including the ability to write concise and accurate technical