Senior Technical Program Manager
Technology, Data & Digital · Software & Web Development · Software Engineering · Project Management
In short
As a Senior Technical Program Manager in Azure Networking, you will own the introduction of the next-generation Ethernet platform for regional networking at Microsoft scale. You will independently drive this charter, creating clarity from ambiguity and aligning engineering and operations on priorities, tradeoffs and delivery. This opportunity will allow you to expand your influence on regional network architecture at Microsoft scale.
Responsibilities
- Independently drive the next-generation Ethernet program for regional networking.
- Turn ambiguous needs into clear requirements and execution plans; set priorities, resolve dependencies and own delivery and readiness outcomes.
- Shape regional network design and topologies with architects.
- Balance performance, latency, resiliency, failure domains, capacity, scalability and cost for training and inference within a region.
- Apply large-systems thinking to develop new network designs and products with engineers and vendors.
- Resolve interdependencies across network switch and host NIC capabilities, Ethernet fabrics, transport, network management software and network operations.
- Lead interoperability validation and representative workload testing with engineering.
- Evaluate RDMA and emerging MRC capabilities where appropriate, using congestion, path diversity, failure recovery and accelerator utilization to assess readiness.
- Plan staged production deployments for safe coexistence with the existing fleet.
- Use compatibility validation, failure injection, limited canaries, telemetry-based release criteria and rehearsed rollback to manage risk before expansion.
- Agree operational-readiness criteria with operations teams, covering support ownership, monitoring, runbooks, capacity and incident response before each production stage.
- Align engineering, operations and partners through influence.
- Make evidence-based tradeoffs together, resolve competing priorities and use reliability, performance, adoption and recovery metrics to improve post-launch outcomes.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree AND 4+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development OR equivalent experience.
- 2+ years of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements.
- Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
Desired Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years experience engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development OR equivalent experience.
- 6+ years of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.
- 1+ year(s) of experience reading and/or writing code (e.g., sample documentation, product demos).
- 1+ year(s) of experience with datacenter networking or AI infrastructure, including topology design, high-performance Ethernet, distributed workloads or transport technologies such as RDMA.
- 1+ year(s) of experience bringing hardware and software together through prototyping, interoperability testing, staged deployment and production operations.
- 1+ year(s) of experience independently leading complex cross-team programs, building trust across engineering, operations and external partners, and influencing delivery without direct authority.
Benefits
- The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 per year.
- There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $160,200 - $261,000 per year.
- Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
- Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay
Skills
RDMAEthernet
#AI#Azure Networking#NVIDIA#AMD#Ethernet#RDMA#MRC
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Company
MicrosoftJob Posted
3 days ago
Employment Type
Full Time
Work mode
Remote
Salary
US$119,800–234,700 / year
Experience Level
Senior
Locations
United States
Qualification
Bachelor
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