Principal Software Engineer

At Azure DevOps, we pride ourselves on building services that make engineering teams productive. This is the reason why Azure DevOps is solution of choice for millions of engineers – including thousands of Microsoft largest customers and internal teams. Azure DevOps - https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/devops/ - is a suite of services as part of Microsoft Azure, which provides work planning, repos, CI/CD, test management, and more.  

We are looking for experienced full-stack software engineers to join Azure DevOps team. Our team is accountable for ensuring we deliver on Azure DevOps promise - always available, always reliable, always responsive. We build new features to enhance performance, scalability and compliance, and deliver productivity wins to all Azure customers. If you are looking for a way to multiply your impact – join us, and unlock 10x increase in productivity to millions of Azure Developers.

Required Qualifications:

• 10+ years professional software development with at least two of the following C#/C++/Java, SQL, HTML5/JavaScript/React or ASP.NET
• 8+ years of professional experience designing, building, and running Cloud Services at large scale
• Excellent analytical skills as well as communication skills both verbal and written. We are a distributed team so we’re extra mindful about communication.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment paradigms
• Familiarity with SQL databases and/or NoSQL document stores. Experience with high scale SQL.

• Troubleshooting skills across network, application, caching, queuing, load-balancing storage and distributed services layers 

• Experience using and contributing to Open Source or Inner Source
• Hands on experience using containers like Docker or any other competitive container technologies

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.

• Collaborate closely with Product, Design, and Engineering teams to plan and execute on key business priorities.
• Design, implement, test, instrument, document and maintain features using C#, SQL, ASP.Net, HTML5, React, Typescript, PowerShell, and Azure
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• Lead the team in adopting new technologies, tools and practices from Microsoft and industry
• Champion engineering practices of safe and fast paced releases – e.g. flight code changes and drive telemetry and analytics to take a data-driven approach to understanding customer impact
• Support and influence team culture of customer obsession, continuous improvement, reflection, and growth - mentor, initiate and participate in in design and code sharing
• Be avid customer advocate – meet with customers, and product support to learn about their experience, analyze how features are performing in production and make the product better