Microsoft Principal Software Engineer 

United States, Georgia, Atlanta 

448159741

Required/minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in C# languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
• OR equivalent experience.

• 4+ years of experience authoring backend servicesusing C#.
• 4+ years of experience working on large scale cloud applications, distributed systems, and backend development.

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.

Additional or preferred qualifications

• 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 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 equivalent experience.
• 6+ years of experience authoring backend servicesusing C#.
• 6+ years of experience working on large scale cloud applications, distributed systems, and backend development.
• Experience with design and implementation of enterprise-scale services.
• Knowledge of microservices architecture.
• Demonstrated experience with Azure technologies (or other cloud computing platforms).
• Preferred demonstrated experience with NoSQL databases.
• Ability to collaborate effectively and quickly understand emerging technologies.
• Ability to generate clarity in ambiguous situations.
• Experience Leading, Coaching and Mentoring other engineers.
• Ability to quickly ramp up, understand complex problems, and create solutions across many products.
• Ability to work and thrive in a dynamic, collaborative environment.
• Experience driving a complex multi-year infrastructure project.
• Experience as a technical lead with a passion for coaching and mentoring others.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until July 31, 2024.

As the Principal Software Engineer on the Windows Cloud Experiences team, you will be responsible for:

• Partners with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a set of scenarios.
• Leads efforts and discussions for the architecture of aspects of products/solutions (e.g., design, cost). Creates proposals for architecture and design documents and leads testing of hypotheses and proposed solutions.
• Leads by example and mentors’ others to produce extensible and maintainable code used across products. Leads efforts to optimize, debug, refactor, and reuse code to improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI). Identifies best practices and coding patterns and provides deep expertise in the coding and validation strategy.
• Leads efforts for creation and conducting of experimentation to determine the effectiveness of changes, monitors developments for prototyping and testing products, interprets results, and decides on next steps or ship decision from results.
• Research, architect, develop and deliver solutions in an evolving agile development environment.
• Design and develop large scale distributed software services and solutions.
• Adhere to and drive modern software engineering practices through design and code reviews.
• System design through well-defined interfaces across multiple components, code reviews, leveraging data/telemetry to make decisions.
• Develop “best-in-class” engineering for our services by ensuring that the services and the components are well-defined and modularized, secure, reliable, diagnosable, actively monitored and reusable.
• Improve test coverage for services, organize and implement integration tests, and resolve problem areas.
• Consider testability, portability/monitoring, reliability, and maintainability, and understand when code is ready to be shared and delivered.
• Gain a working understanding of Microsoft as a business and collaborate with mentors and leaders in order to contribute to cohesive, end-to-end experiences for our users.
• Focus on customer/partner needs through a data driven approach
• Troubleshoot and optimize automation, reliability and monitoring for Live Site.
• Other
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