Microsoft Principal Software Engineer 

United States, Massachusetts 

164738240

Required/Minimum 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, Python, Kotlin, or others

  • OR equivalent experience.

• Proficient experience in designing, developing, and operating distributed systems and/or services in the cloud.
• Experience working with stakeholders.

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.
• Citizenship & Citizenship Verification:This position requires verification of citizenship due to citizenship-based legal restrictions. Specifically, this position supports United States federal, state, and/or local government agency customers and is subject to certain citizenship-based restrictions where required or permitted by applicable law. To meet this legal requirement, and as a condition of employment, the successful candidate’s citizenship will be verified with a valid passport.

Preferred/Additional Qualifications:

• Ability to be on call and able to analyze issues on a FedRamp certified system.
• FedRAMP security clearance
• 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

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

• Collaborate with 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.
• Drive project plans and release plans, break down vision into milestones, and guide project estimation.
• Lead experimentation to determine the effectiveness of changes.
• Maintain operations of live services, develop playbooks for issue resolution and then implement automations for those playbooks to avoid ever needing them. Ensure solutions are scalable and meet compliance guidelines.
• Enhance and contribute to software developer tools, apply automation within production, and stay current with technological developments.
• Provide mentoring to colleagues and peers across the organization
• Actively participate in the on-call rotationand able to analyze issues on a FedRamp certified system.

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