Microsoft Principal Software Engineer 

United States 

644255843

Required 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++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 8+ years deep hands-on working knowledge of building cloud-scale services.
• 5+ years operational experience in running your service in one of the large-scale clouds like Azure, AWS, or GCP.

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 orrelated technical field AND 12+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, orPython
  • OR Master'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 equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of exposure to the internals of databases and stores.
• Exercise the power of principles when it comes to choices or decisions with practical knowledge of applying these principles. These are applicable for Code as well as Design.
  
• Provide technical leadership, raising the technical bar, maintaining data and results-driven culture while closely working with cross function teams for the same connected mission.
  
• Ability to balance the long-term architecture while delivering the incremental milestones with simplicity and maintainability as core tenets will advance the platform semester over semester towards the North Star goals.

• Responsible for the technical design and vision for building the necessary underlying systems to enable high throughput query-ability or high throughput ingestion-services in the platform with performance goals.
• Some of the areas in the platform need deeper knowledge in the area of Databses, Stores but it is optional. We believe someone who has proven deep in one computer science domain can replicate the same in other domains.
• Overall, your responsibilities include the blended intersection of distributed systems, programming language runtime internals, optional database internals to build the necessary infrastructure for Azure Inventory.
• Responsibilities will extend developing deep business acumen about Azure. You will create clarity for the team and mentor members by creating a sense of purpose on this mission.
• Holds accountability as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI), mentoring engineers across products/solutions, working on-call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions.

• Other

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