Microsoft Principal Software Architect/Engineer 

United States, Massachusetts 

521560320

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.
• 3+ years of experience designing and implementing complex, interdependent cloud-based 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/Additional 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.

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.

Responsibilities include:

• Design : Oversees, influences, and owns efforts and design discussions for the overall system architecture of entire products/solutions that are deeply complex and often ambiguous. Owns creating proposals for architecture and design documents, and leads testing of hypotheses and proposed solutions.

• Coding : Provides technical leadership during code reviews for a solution/product area to assure it meets the team's and Microsoft’s quality standards, is reliable and accurate, and is appropriate for the scale of the product feature. Ensures coding standards are followed.

• Implement : Breaks down long-term project vision into milestones. Guides other members for project estimation and escalates only the most critical issues. · Leads the creation of implementation framework as necessary, following industry standards. Leads implementation and deployment of the solution in the existing framework. components to meet differing business objectives. Leads efforts to assure that solutions are deployed safely.

• Reliability and Supportability : Proficient in design and integration across teams or multiple products on telemetry in systems and products to provide feedback on system behavior such as performance, reliability, availability, usage, and implement safety mechanisms resulting in iterative feedback loops resulting in subsequent designs. Ensures solutions are scalable, financially responsible, and meet capture/storage guidelines. Sets expectations for outputs of telemetry such as notifications or dashboards.

• Engineering Excellence:Shares and teaches others practices about new tools and strategies. Provides technical leadership through efforts to ensure the correct processes are followed to achieve a high degree of security, privacy, safety, and accessibility across solutions and teams. 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. Applies, extrapolates, and helps to create practices and shares information with other engineers to reliably build code that is based on well-established methods while also applying practices for new code development. Leads efforts to initiate and maintain communication with key partners across Microsoft ecosystem of engineers.

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