Principal Software Engineer

The Azure Compute team, builds a fault tolerant, distributed system on top of commodity datacenter hardware, to deliver infrastructure for hosting cloud applications in virtual machines (VMs). The team creates an illusion that resources are limitless, infinitely elastic, and always available.

This role is in the Availability Platform team, within Azure Compute, that primarily focuses on making sure every Azure VM is available with an  Service Level Agreement (SLA) of 99.99+%. Getting to that target and beyond requires out-of-the box thinking, backed by sound data-driven decisions. The team owns the services that measure the health of millions of Azure machine as well as the control plane services that make all repair decisions in Azure. The team also collaborates closely with data scientists to build predictive failure models to live migrate VMs off machines even before the failure occurs. VM availability is one of the top KPIs for Azure and Microsoft – come be part of the team driving the platform forward on this front.

As a Principal Software Engineer, you will be joining a talented team that invests in our people and technology for the long term. We emphasize comprehensive designs, incremental development with high quality, shipping frequently, and adapting quickly to customer feedback. Join us in pushing the boundaries of scale, reliability, availability, and efficiency. If you want hands-on services architecture experience at large scale, this is the role for you.

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 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 4+ years of experience working in distributed systems.
• 2+ years of experience in leading the design and architecture of change management features and services

Other Qualifications:

• 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:

• 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.
• Demonstrated:
  • ability and passion for designing and building highly available distributed systems at scale;
  • problem solving and debugging skills;
  • ability to exercise sound judgment in ambiguous situations.
• Experience with agile methodologies, a willingness to adopt them is required.
• Experience working with hardware level is a plus.

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 January 21, 2025. 

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.

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• Partners with appropriate stakeholders spanning across teams and orgs to determine project requirements
• Leads the design and architecture of change management features and services in Azure Compute
• Identifies dependencies and authors design documents for features and services.
• Leverages expertise with appropriate stakeholders to develop project plans, release plans, and work items.
• Develops high quality, extensible, maintenable code and coaches others to do the same.
• Supports livesite as Designated Responsible Individual (DRI), mentoring engineers across products/solutions, working on-call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions.
• Proactively seeks 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.