Microsoft Principal Software Engineer -- Windows 

China, Jiangsu, Suzhou City 

665121297

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#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • OR equivalent experience
• 8+ years of software engineering experience building and shipping apps and/or services.
• Excellent technical design skills and proven ability to drive large scale system designs for commercial projects or product.
• Fluent English communication skill.

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
  • 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
• Ambitious, self-motivated,Agile, can-do attitude and great at dealing with ambiguity.
• Strong knowledge of object-oriented programming language paradigms
• Strong coding, debugging and problem-solving skills
• Keen interest in mentoring early in career engineers
• Ability to quickly ramp up, understand complex problems, and create solutions across many products
• Great communication skills to collaborate cross-group and work effectively within the team
• Expertise in developing large scale services.
• Expertise in OS hypervisor.
• Expertise in virtualization.

• Lead the technical direction and vision for the architecture, design, and the implementation of our infrastructure on Azure that scales to provision, manage, and monitor health of millions of cloud-based virtual devices.
• Mentor and help grow a team of talented, diverse software engineers.
• Work across organizations, collaborating with internal partner teams such as Azure Compute, Core OS, Microsoft Security and Identity team, and others.
• Provide leadership for the architecture of secure, distributed, scalable, and resilient micro-services using modern technologies.
• Raise the technical bar, maintain a data and results driven culture, and nurture a high-performance team to build world-class experiences for W365 and AVD end users, ITPros, partners, and operations teams.
• Get to extend your knowledge of cloud compute, hypervisors, desktop virtualization, streaming technologies, and other technical areas including cloud-based management suites.
• Be part of a team designing fundamental capabilities involving AKS, storage, networking, and streaming protocols (such as Remote Desktop Protocol) for our core products to enhance the value to our customer base.
• Be a part of an agile team working with experienced engineers and product managers that behave more like a technology startup.