Microsoft

Principal Software Engineer

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17 hours ago
St. Louis, MO, USA or Redmond, WA, USAStaff+
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Base Salary

$143k - $304k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Determine user requirements and dependencies with stakeholders and lead design documentation for products, applications, services, and platforms.
  • Design and deliver software that automates AKS cluster provisioning, upgrades, and management on Azure Local.
  • Own features from design through production and drive architectural decisions for distributed cloud infrastructure.
  • Lead by example, produce maintainable code, and mentor engineers across products and solutions.
  • Coordinate cross-product project plans, release plans, and work items with stakeholders.
  • Serve as a Designated Responsible Individual, participate in on-call operations, and monitor systems for degradation, downtime, or interruptions.
  • Improve product availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance while standardizing monitoring and operations at scale.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field and 6+ years of technical engineering experience with coding, or equivalent experience.
  • Coding experience in languages including C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
  • Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements, including the Microsoft Cloud Background Check.
  • Preferred: bachelor’s degree with 10+ years of technical engineering experience, or a master’s degree with 8+ years of experience, or equivalent experience.
  • Experience building, shipping, and operating reliable on-premises cloud infrastructure.
  • Experience with site-reliability engineering practices and secure development practices.
  • Advanced knowledge of Kubernetes and Linux operating systems.
  • Experience with Kubernetes Cluster API (CAPI) and providers.
  • Experience with Azure core services, networking, storage, compute and virtualization, platform monitoring, logging and alerting, or delivery pipelines.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work arrangement combining in-office collaboration with work-from-home flexibility.
  • Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
  • Position is open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until filled.
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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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