Microsoft PRINCIPAL SOFTWARE ENGINEER 

United States, Washington 

860068689

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline 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.

• 5+ years of cloud infrastructure experience.
• 5+ years of experience running a highly distributed backend storage system.

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

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.
• 7+ years’ experience building and shipping production grade software or services with emphasis in telemetry and monitoring.
• 4+ years of experience building distributed services.

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 June 14, 2024.

• Build, evolve and co-own a hyper-scale distributed service.
• Participate in all stages of service lifecycle.
• Dive deep into global-scale service issues and drive improvements to resiliency, latency, and product reliability.
• Promote automation effort for regions buildout.
• Promote improvements in the quality and stability of service fundamentals and promote engineering best practices.
• Demonstrate effective customer empathy, curiosity and willingness to question and learn, and participation in live site on-call rotation.

Other

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