Principal Software Engineer - Azure

As a Principal Software Engineer in Microsoft Azure, a global cloud platform that empowers every person and organization on the planet to achieve more, you will have the opportunity to join our software development team, located in Belgrade, and build some of the most advanced and widely used intelligent apps and solutions. The tools and products we build are based on groundbreaking technology and are global market leaders, with millions of active users. In this role you will collaborate with some of the world's leading experts in this area of technology, and have an excellent opportunity to learn, grow and advance your career.  

We are one of the most profitable and fastest-growing businesses at Microsoft on the mission to make Azure the world’s computer powering all customer workloads. If you’ve dreamed of making global impact and love creating value for customers while also having fun in a globally distributed, culturally diverse team, 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 extensive technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, C#, Python, JS, TypeScript, PowerShell, Rust 
• Extensive software development experience building commercial grade software, including experience in large scale, high availability services and experiences    
• In –depth understanding of software engineering principles.  
• Excellent communication and cross team collaboration skill. 

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS 

• Passion for Growth, doing new things, and learning from others and own mistakes. 
• Experience driving architecture/design/implementation and delivery of great user experiences. 
• Drive for customer engagement and obsession, with data driven approach. 
• Proven experience in guiding and mentoring a team of engineers  
• Broad experience in database systems architecture. 
• Experience with distributed systems. 

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. 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.

• Partner with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a set of scenarios.
• Lead identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.
• Lead by example and mentor others to produce extensible and maintainable code used across products.
• Leverage subject-matter expertise of cross-product features with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to drive multiple group's project plans, release plans, and work items.
• Hold accountability as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI), mentoring engineers across products/solutions, working on-call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions.
• Proactively seek new knowledge and adapts 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 and shares knowledge with other engineers.