Principal Software Engineer

Responsibilities

• Acts as an expert for Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and monitors other engineers across product lines, working on call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions.
• Leads identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.
• Optimizes, debugs, refactors, and reuses code to improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI).
• Lead technically, raise standards, and maintain a results-driven culture.
• Collaborate within Azure to develop platforms for managing and monitoring at scale.
• Serve as a role model for an open, honest, and inclusive approach to problem-solving.
• Seeks new knowledge and adapts to emerging trends, technical solutions, and patterns to enhance the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products. Also promotes consistency in monitoring and operations at scale and shares knowledge with other engineers.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field 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+ year(s) of experience in technical design, problem-solving, and debugging.
• 6+ year(s) of experience with architecting large system and seeing them to production

• 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.

• 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.
• 1+ year(s) experience with Linux and Windows operating system internals, including kernel development. Experience with the Rust programming language is also beneficial.
• 1+ year(s) experience in large-scale system architecture, design, development, testing, and release. This includes areas such as cloud infrastructure, system-level application design and development, performance tuning, and telemetry design and analysis.
• 1+ year(s) experience demonstrating programming proficiency and understanding of architectural patterns for high-scale applications, along with strong analytical skills and a structured approach to software design. Includes a commitment to building reliable, well-tested code and effective collaboration and communication of technical details.

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