Principal Software Engineer

We are from Azure Core Compte Team! Calling all Software Engineering Managers with a passion for pushing the boundaries of cloud technology! Join our dynamic team at Azure Core Compute and be at the forefront of building the next generation cloud that will redefine how businesses scale, collaborate, and thrive.

Azure Core is Azure's most profitable and fast-growing business at Microsoft on the mission to make Azure the world’s computer powering all customer workloads! We, the Azure Core Compute team in IDC, pride ourselves in working without boundaries to deliver the cloud platform capable of running any workload. As a mission-critical cloud platform, our goal is to ensure industry-leading availability, reliability, performance consistency at scale, compliance, and security.

As a Principal Software Engineer on our team, you will lead features that run on millions of nodes, work across organizations to meet the scale, elasticity, latency, and reliability demands of our customers. You will have opportunities to learn new technologies and design the next version of services adapting to hardware evolution. You will have the freedom to ideate, create and provide thought leadership in bringing innovation to our products and engineering practices and grow into a senior technical or organizational leader.

If you’ve dreamed of making global impact and love creating value for customers while also having fun, come talk to us today!

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 11+ 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 experience designing, building and shipping high quality system software

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:

• Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline or equivalent industry experience
• 8+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in C/C++
• Experience in building components of embedded systems, SoC or applications that run on them
• Native Windows or Linux development experience
• Experience using Rust programming language
• Experience with Hyper-V, VMWare, Docker or other virtualization technologies
• Knowledge of Performance profiling tools
• Experience with GPUs/FPGAs and their programming stacks
• Proven ability to create componentized and well-architected software
• Experience with improving service operations or engineering fundamentals

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.

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• Collaborate with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a scenario. Leverage a variety of feedback channels to incorporate insights into future designs or solution fixes.
• Lead discussions for the architecture of products/solutions and create proposals for architecture by testing design hypotheses and helping to refine code plans.
• Create, implement, optimize, debug, refactor and reuse code to establish and improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness and return on investment (ROI).
• Independently create a clear and articulated plan for testing and assuring quality of solutions. Identify the need for a broad versus selected approach in testing mechanisms and make informed decisions to implement the most effective tests.
• Leverage performance and profiling tools to identify hot spots and bottlenecks across hardware and software boundaries.
• Act as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and guide other engineers by developing and following the playbook, working on call to monitor service for degradation or downtime, alerting stakeholders about status and initiate actions to restore service.
• Act as a DRI for release management, ensure the release sticks to the schedule by identifying reasons for blockers/delays, improve the signals that are blocking deployments, triage the issues are new vs existing, mitigate and work towards improving the release process.
• Proactively seek new knowledge and adapt 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.