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Microsoft Principal Software Engineer 
United States, North Carolina, Charlotte 
581113535

28.01.2025

Required/Minimum 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#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
    • OR equivalent experience.

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 orrelated 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.
  • Awareness and ability to reason about, modern distributed software design patterns and cloud systems architecture, including microservices, containers, load-balancing, queuing, caching.
  • Experience with C#/Java/C/C++/Golang.
  • Experience in building, shipping and operating reliable solutions.

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 January 29, 2025.


Responsibilities
  • Partner across multiple product groups to apply subject-matter expertise in distributed systems design practices, interactions between cloud technology layers and components, basic dependencies at scale, and the code that defines infrastructures.
  • Lead by example and mentors' others to produce extensible and maintainable code used across products.
  • Develop and evangelize insights, best practices, and standards that can be applied to improve system, platform, and/or product development and operations across the business.
  • Drive continuous improvements in the architecture, code, features, operations and comprehensive use scenarios of products by leveraging end-to-end technical expertise.
  • Make improvements to the product fundamentals and architecture, share knowledge and code, always looking for ways to make what we build useful to multiple teams and products.
  • Demonstrates end-to-end expertise in distributed systems design, interactions between cloud technology layers.
  • Provide technical leadership in test maturity reviews, static analysisreviews, meetings, on-call rotations, and incident responses throughout product development and operations cycles.
  • Provides deep business and technical expertise as required to resolve major incidents.