Would you like to join a team delivering innovative software that powers millions of Microsoft Azure servers around the world? The Azure Compute Node Services Group manages the lifecycle and operations for virtual machines.
As a Principal Software Engineer in the team, you will join a global network of leaders working on building and supporting Azure Core workflows. This will require working on both Windows and Linux, in addition to developing software in Rust for Azure Boost. You will lead the development of software that achieves reliability, security, availability, serviceability and supportability.
This opportunity will allow you to accelerate your career growth and learning while working with a community of experienced and energized leaders. While the majority of the team will be based in Redmond, this is a flexible work opportunity, and you may be able to have a completely remote working environment.
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.
Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership for the architecture, reliability, scalability, and operational excellence of large-scale virtual machine management and monitoring platforms.
- Lead identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.
- Optimize, debug, refactor, and reuse code to improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI).
- Collaborate within Azure to develop platforms for managing and monitoring virtual machines at scale.
- Mentor and develop engineers at all levels through knowledge sharing and continuous learning
- Serve as a role model for an open and inclusive approach to problem-solving.
- Monitor other engineers across product lines, working on call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions.
- Seek 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.
- Leverage AI tools and AI-assisted workflows to improve productivity, accelerate engineering execution, and help the team adopt effective AI practices.
Qualifications
Required 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.
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.
- 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 Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 12+ 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 experience in technical design, problem-solving, debugging, and architecting large system and seeing them to production.
- 6+ years experience in Linux/Windows OS internals, Kernel development.
- 6+ years experience with RUST.
- 6+ years experience in large scale system architecture, design, development, testing, and release, including but not limited to Cloud Infrastructure, system level application design and development, performance tuning, telemetry design and analysis.
- 6+ years of experience demonstrating programming skills and knowledge of architectural patterns for large, high-scale applications.
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Software Engineering IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $142,800 - $274,800 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 $188,000 - $304,200 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
This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.
- Ability to pass Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years.
- Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience OR Bachelor's Degree AND 12+ years technical engineering experience OR equivalent experience.
- 6+ years experience in technical design, problem-solving, debugging, and architecting large systems to production.
- 6+ years experience in Linux/Windows OS internals and Kernel development.
- 6+ years experience with Rust.
- 6+ years experience in large scale system architecture, design, development, testing, and release, including Cloud Infrastructure, system-level application design, performance tuning, and telemetry design/analysis.
- 6+ years demonstrating programming skills and knowledge of architectural patterns for large, high-scale applications.
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