Microsoft Principal Software Engineer 

United States, Washington 

707027600

Site Reliability Engineering (

our cloud

role supports flexible work from home with occasional inoffice meetings.

Required/Minimum 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
  o 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.

Additional or 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
  o 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
  o OR equivalent experience.
  

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:

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• Partner across multiple product groups to apply subject-matterexpertisein 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 mentor 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,operationsand comprehensive use scenarios of products byleveragingend-to-end technicalexpertise.
• 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.
• Demonstrate end-to-endexpertisein 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 technicalexpertiseasrequiredto resolve major incidents.

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