Microsoft

Principal Software Engineer

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Responsibilities

  • Partner with multiple product groups on distributed-systems design, cloud-layer interactions, infrastructure code, and large-scale dependencies.
  • Lead by example, mentor engineers, and produce extensible, maintainable code reused across products.
  • Develop and evangelize engineering insights and standards that improve system, platform, product development, and operations.
  • Drive improvements to architecture, code, features, operations, and end-to-end product scenarios.
  • Improve product fundamentals and architecture while sharing knowledge and code across teams and products.
  • Provide technical leadership in test maturity reviews, static-analysis reviews, on-call rotations, and incident response.
  • Resolve major incidents using deep business and technical expertise.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical discipline and 6+ years of technical engineering experience with coding, or equivalent experience.
  • Preferred: bachelor’s degree and 10+ years of technical engineering experience, or a master’s degree and 8+ years of technical engineering experience, or equivalent experience.
  • Experience with large-scale distributed systems or similarly complex environments.
  • Ability to reason about modern distributed software design patterns and cloud systems architecture.
  • Experience with C#, Java, C, C++, or Golang.
  • Experience building, shipping, and operating reliable solutions.

Benefits

  • Minimum of three days per week in the office.
  • Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
  • Microsoft provides an inclusive, collaborative global work environment and reasonable accommodations during the application process.

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About Microsoft

10,000+ employees

Microsoft develops operating systems, productivity software, cloud services, developer tools, and consumer devices for individuals, enterprises, and governments. Its main products include Windows, Microsoft 365, Azure, Visual Studio/GitHub, Xbox, and LinkedIn; revenue comes from software subscriptions and licenses, cloud consumption, hardware sales, and advertising. Founded in 1975 and headquartered in Redmond, Washington, Microsoft is a public company traded on Nasdaq.

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