Principal Software Engineer

, CA, United States

Azure is the world’s leading cloud offering, trusted by hundreds of millions of users worldwide.

Azure Pilotfish Client team is a part of Azure Compute. We are managing service lifecycles for millions of machines in our data center. We are maintaining high availability guarantees at our end on the customer. Our work is used by third party Microsoft customers, first party Microsoft services like HDInsight, SQL Azure, Cosmos and Bing, in addition to core Compute, Cloudnet and Storage infrastructure. This work holds the key to unlocking rapid innovation while providing the most up-to-date services, and it has a multiplier effect for the entire company as it delivers on a smart underlying infrastructure for everyone to use.

We are looking for a talented Principal Software Engineer to support Azure’s explosive growth. The role involves the application ofdistributedsystem fundamentals, problem solving and growth mindset to create simple solutions to complex engineeringproblems. You will have the chance to learn and provide deep technical impact, product innovation, understand and leverage a wide variety of technologies ranging from internals of different networking devices to building highly resilient and scalable microservices.

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.

"Up to 100% work from home in the U.S.A."

Responsibilities

Works with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a set of features.

Contributes to the identification of dependencies, and the development of design documents for a product area with little oversight.

Creates and implements code for a product, service, or feature, reusing code as applicable.

Contributes to efforts to break down larger work items into smaller work items and provides estimation.

Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) working on-call to monitor system/product feature/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions and gains approval to restore system/product/service for simple problems.

Remains current in skills by investing time and effort into staying abreast of current developments that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale.

Embody our Culture and Values.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python

OR equivalent experience.

6+ years of software development experience.

6+ years of experience in distributed systems.

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.

Preferred Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 10+ years 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 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python

OR equivalent experience.

Software Engineering IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $133,600 - $256,800 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 $173,200 - $282,200 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

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until May 24, 2024.

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