Microsoft Principal Software Engineer 

Taiwan, Taoyuan City 

329853804

As a Principal Software Engineer in Azure Core's ARG group, you will be responsible for the technical design and vision for building the necessary underlying systems to enable query-ability on the massively large, connected graph cloud inventory. You will optimize the runtime of the distributed system and the query engine to achieve ambitious performance goals, leveraging the standard authorization engine of the cloud for secure access control across the system. You will work closely with cross-functional teams across Azure Core and Microsoft to drive the architecture, design, and development of Project Galaxy.

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++, C#, or Java
  • OR equivalent experience

• 6+ years of experience in one of the object-oriented programming languages including runtime internals like C#, Java, etc.
• 4+ years of operational experience in running your service in one of the large-scale clouds like Azure, AWS, GCP.
• 2+ years of experience providing technical leadership, raising the technical bar, maintaining data and results-driven culture while closely working with cross function teams for the same connected mission.

Other Qualifications:

• 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
  • OR 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 equivalent experience.

• 4+ years deep hands-on working knowledge of building a true cloud-scale services.

• 2+ years of exposure to the internals of databases, stores.

• 2+ years experience leveraging fundamental principles to guide your choices and decisions, applying these principles practically in both coding and design.

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

• You are responsible for the technical design and vision for building the necessary underlying systems to enable query-ability on the massively large, connected graph cloud inventory to serve billions of resources per day to the callers.
• Responsible for optimizing the runtime of the distributed system and the query engine to achieve ambitious performance goals right from the entry point of the cloud to the lowest layer in the architecture and everything in between.
• Leverage the standard authorization engine of the cloud for secure access control across the system while not compromising on the performant corpus query-ability scale.
• Work closely with cross-functional teams across Azure Core and Microsoft to drive architecture, design, and development of Project Galaxy effort.
• Lead by example. You are a hands-on practitioner of standards in the team, organization.
• You will provide strong technical leadership, raising the technical bar, maintaining data and results-driven culture, nurture a team culture of high collaboration and trust.
• Your ability to balance the long-term architecture while delivering the incremental milestones with simplicity and maintainability as core tenets will advance the Galaxy effort semester over semester towards the North Star goals.
• You will be a role model for an open, honest, and inclusive approach to problem solving.