Microsoft Principal Software Engineer 

United States, Washington 

189966867

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C++, C#, Java, Golang or Python
  
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 4+ years of experience designing and implementing distributed systems.

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 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C++, C#, Java, Golang or Python
  • OR master’s degree in computer science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C++, C#, Java, Golang or Python
  • OR equivalent experience.
• Prior experience or strong knowledge in developing and maintaining cloud services hosted in Azure, or other similar Cloud platforms.
• Ability to engage in site-reliability engineering practices.

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

• Drives engineering initiatives with focus on technical direction, quality, usability & performance.
• Creates, implements, optimizes, debugs, refactors, and reuses code to establish and improve performance, maintainability and reliability of our services and components.
• Collaborates with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a scenario and develops design documents, drives project and release plans.
• Participate in Livesite operations with emphasis on timely response, delivery & satisfaction for stakeholders.
• 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.
• Share knowledge with colleagues via code and design reviews.
• Collaborate across internal & external stakeholders providing leadership and mentoring.