Microsoft Principal Software Engineer - Azure Storage 

United States, Washington 

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• 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# or Java
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of experience in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems

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.

• 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# OR Java,
  • 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# OR Java
  • OR equivalent experience.
• Experience and/or subject matter expertise with any of the following:
  
  • Multi-threaded/parallel programming
    
  • Storage or file systems
    
  • Distributed systems
• 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

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

• 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.