Microsoft Principal Software Engineer 

Romania 

791183166

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND Mid - Senior level technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++ or C#
  • OR equivalent experience
  • OR equivalent alternative education, skills, and/or practical experience
• Experience in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems

Preferred Qualifications:

• Professional software development experience building scalable, distributed services with C++ or C#
• Experience and/or subject matter expertise with any of the following:
  
  • Multi-threaded/parallel programming
    
  • Storage or file systems
    
  • Networking and network security
    
  • Distributed systems
    
  • Operating systems
    
  • Encryption and authentication
    
  • REST
• Demonstrated excellence in:
  
  • Software architecture, engineering and coding practices
    
  • Data structures and algorithms
    
  • Testing, debugging and analytical skills
• Demonstrated ability to plan, schedule and deliver reliable and performant software

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.

• Partners with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a set of scenarios.
• Leads identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.
• Leads by example and mentors others to produce extensible and maintainable code used across products.
• Leverages subject-matter expertise of cross-product features with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to drive multiple group's project plans, release plans, and work items.
• 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.
• Proactively seeks new knowledge and adapts to new trends, technical solutions, and patterns that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale and shares knowledge with other engineers.