Principal Software Engineer

If you’re excited about innovation and exploration in an environment that supports you and encourages experimentation, check out our team for an exciting open source role! We are the Azure Incubations Team within the Azure Office of the CTO, responsible for identifying new product ideas, incubating those ideas, and if they’re successful, creating open source community around the idea and handing off to Azure’s service teams. Our goal is to find and develop disruptive opportunities that have the potential to drive value to the Azure business. We work closely with the open-source community as part of our endeavor. 

To empower innovation, we’ve created a psychologically safe environment for experimentation and incubation. When we find good ideas, we double down on those ideas, building out the idea into a fully functional product.  If you’re excited about innovation and exploration in this type of environment, this Principal Software Engineer role is a great role for you. 

We are an organization that cares about work-life balance, personal and professional growth, enjoying your work, and liking the people you work with.  As remote first organization with offices on the Microsoft Redmond & Mountain View campus, you’ll have the flexibility to work from anywhere and interact with team members across the globe from a wide variety of backgrounds. 

Being a member of the Incubations team means working on projects with high ambiguity. We need engineers adept at looking around corners and creating order out of chaos so we land on the best architecture and design from a myriad of options. We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer who can communicate the project strategy across a broad set of individuals – users, contributors, internal and external partners – with varying levels of technical depth.   

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 discipline AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Rust, Go, Java,, JavaScript, or Python 
  • OR equivalent experience 
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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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Preferred Qualifications:  

• Experience building complex orchestration frameworks in the cloud native computing space. 

• Deep experience in Go and C#. 

• Experience with Kubernetes and cloud provisioning frameworks. 

• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team.  

Software Engineering IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $137,600 - $267,000 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 $180,400 - $294,000 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

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until November 13, 2024.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.  We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

We’re looking for a Principal Software Engineer with experience bringing projects to first version products or services. You’ll help us evolve a strategic, high potential incubation into an open source project with potential to deliver a 1P service within the Azure ecosystem. In this role you will:  

• Deliver the next generation open source cloud native deployment framework.  

• Establish engineering processes and drive technology choices to deliver a performant, resilient, secure product that we are happy to share with the open-source community. Demonstrate deep understanding of the up and downstream effects of these choices.   

• Engage with internal partner teams to enable new technology across a broad range of services.   

• Build bridges between groups, providing team, community, and industry leadership and help define strategy. Enable cross team communications and resolve conflicts between teams.  

• Engage and contribute to the open-source community built around your project.  

• Be a proactive technical leader, engaged with mentoring and identifying friction areas for members of the team. 

• Lead incorporation of appropriate continuous feedback loops measuring customer value, usage patterns, and other actionable metrics of value.    
• Embody our Culture and Values