Microsoft Principal Software Engineer 

Austria, Vienna, Vienna 

694921574

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND multi-year technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • OR equivalent experience.
• Proven experience in designing, developing, and operating distributed systems and/or services in the cloud.

Preferred / Additional Qualifications

• Understanding of AI technologies / models and fundamentals
• Proven ability to tackle complex technical issues when running large scale cloud services.
• Experience with implementing, monitoring and operating software employing Gen AI
• Experience in Stakeholder communication

English Language: fluent in reading, writing and speaking.

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.

The salary for this role is starting from 99,100 euros per annum depending on experience.

Responsibilites include:

• Partners with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements and incorporate insights into designs. Lead the incorporation of continuous feedback loops to measure customer value and usage patterns.
• Lead architecture discussions, create proposals, and work together with other team members. Ensure system architecture meets security and compliance requirements while taking observability, reliability and global scaling into account.
• Own delivery of new features and services end-to-end, including relevant cloud infrastructure changes. Produce maintainable and testable code at high quality. Provide expertise in coding and validation strategy, and ensure code meets quality standards.
• Leads by example and mentors others to produce extensible and maintainable code used across products.
• Leverages 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.
• Holds 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 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.
• Primary owner within the team of the upcoming FedRamp medium system deployment.