Principal Software Engineer

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Azure is the fastest-growing business in Microsoft’s history and is the foundation of Microsoft’s commercial Cloud Services. The Azure Core team builds and manages the core platform across compute, storage, and networking services. We have exciting opportunities for you to innovate and shape the world’s computers, and we encourage you to apply and learn more!

We are looking for a talented Principal Software Engineer to help us deliver highly scalable services and world-class product experiences. We value people who can bring a diverse perspective to our products and where a developer will not just write code but will have a real meaningful impact on the direction of the products and which features to build.

Azure Core Capacity Services form the backbone of Microsoft’s Azure cloud infrastructure, ensuring that both internal services and external customers have reliable access to compute, storage, and networking resources.

Our team is responsible for developing the orchestration engines that power workflow hosting, job execution management, and the delivery of robust APIs and telemetry. We enable declarative provisioning, dependency-aware orchestration, and enforce service-level agreements (SLAs) to maintain operational excellence.

We take a ground-up approach to engineering, designing and implementing custom algorithms for high-speed processing of massive datasets and pioneering secure, high-throughput data transfer solutions.

A Principal Software Engineer on our team is expected to be deeply committed to building Azure from first principles, embracing the challenge of minimizing reliance on external technologies that could introduce latency or instability.

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. 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.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND demonstrated technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • OR Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND proven technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • OR equivalent experience.

Other Requirements:

• 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.

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• Collaborates with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a scenario.
• Drives identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform which is highly scalable.
• Creates, implements, optimizes, debugs, refactors, and reuses code to establish and improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI).
• Supports highly available services used by millions of users on a daily basis.
• Leverages subject-matter expertise of product features and partners with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to drive a workgroup's project plans, release plans, and work items.
• Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and guides other engineers by developing and following the playbook, working on call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions, alerting stakeholders about status and initiates actions to restore system/product/service for simple and complex problems when appropriate.
• Proactively seeks new knowledge and adapts to new trends, technical solutions, and patterns that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale.