Microsoft

Principal Software Engineer--M365 Networking Team

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2 months ago
Suzhou, China or Shanghai, ChinaStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement routing, traffic-management, and load-balancing capabilities for Microsoft 365 workloads, including Copilot.
  • Optimize traffic distribution based on service health and available capacity to improve performance, resilience, and resource utilization.
  • Build distributed, highly available, and resilient systems operating across thousands of servers and serving hundreds of millions of users.
  • Drive technical excellence through architecture design and code reviews.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field and 6+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python, or equivalent experience.
  • Preferred qualifications include a master’s degree and 8+ years of experience, or a bachelor’s degree and 12+ years of experience, with coding in C, C++, C#, Java, Rust, or Python.
  • Strong understanding of computer science fundamentals, distributed systems, data structures, algorithms, and object-oriented design.
  • Experience developing, testing, and debugging backend services or distributed systems and shipping services through multiple releases.
  • Experience with large-scale online services, performance, resiliency, telemetry, security, networking, traffic management, or load balancing is preferred.
  • Experience with DNS architecture, resolution, troubleshooting, DNS-based traffic management, or load balancing is preferred.
  • Familiarity with AI/ML-driven decision systems and demonstrated problem-solving, communication, collaboration, and cross-organizational delivery skills.
  • Ability to pass Microsoft Cloud Background Check and other required security screenings.

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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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