Microsoft Principal Software Engineer - CTJ Poly 

United States, Washington 

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• 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 experience building and shipping production software or services.

• Security Clearance Requirements:Candidates must be able 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:
• The successful candidate must have an active U.S. Government Top Secret Clearance with access to Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) based on a Single Scope Background Investigation (SSBI) with Polygraph. Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. Failure to maintain or obtain the appropriate U.S. Government clearance and/or customer screening requirements may result in employment action up to and including termination.
• Clearance Verification: This position requires successful verification of the stated security clearance to meet federal government customer requirements. You will be asked to provide clearance verification information prior to an offer of employment.
• Microsoft Cloud Background Check:This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

• This position requires verification of U.S. citizenship due to citizenship-based legal restrictions. Specifically, this position supports United States federal, state, and/or local United States government agency customer and is subject to certain citizenship-based restrictions where required or permitted by applicable law. To meet this legal requirement, citizenship will be verified via a valid passport, or other approved documents, or verified US government Clearance

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in development in the Kubernetes ecosystem
• Experience in building large scale cloud services, distributed systems, or operating systems
• Experience developing applications hosted on top of Azure, AWS, or other similar cloud platforms
• Experience with improving service operations or engineering fundamentals.
• Demostrated problem solving and debugging skills

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 September 12, 2024.

As a Principal Software Engineer on our team, you will participate in developing innovative solutions across AI Platform.

• Write concise and clean code with unit tests

• Design and build scalable, high-performance services that are highly reliable

• Ability to work across teams in a large organization

• Design and implement new features as well as add functionality to existing systems

• Investigate pre-production and production issues, implement and deploy fixes

• Participate in an on-call rotation (typically 24/7 for one week every 6-8 weeks)

• Develop and use automation to deploy and manage complex cloud services across multiple Azure cloud instances and regions

• Define and develop standardized, repeatable, scalable solutions to guarantee quality

• Drive initiatives to gather and examine data across various metrics (e.g., system health) to enhance product development for new features, improved reliability, or guide decisions in engineering products.

• Be enthusiastic, self-motivated, and a great collaborator

• Be passionate about making customers successful

• Embody out and