Microsoft

Principal Software Engineer

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2 days ago
Shanghai, China or Beijing, ChinaStaff+
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Responsibilities

  • Design, build, test, deploy, and operate reliable backend services, APIs, data pipelines, and automation workflows.
  • Create intelligent capabilities that turn operational data into actionable insights for engineering teams.
  • Apply software engineering and AI techniques to anomaly detection, alert correlation, incident diagnosis, and safe mitigation.
  • Investigate production issues, identify root causes, and convert live-service lessons into product and engineering improvements.
  • Partner with service teams, product managers, and engineers to translate reliability challenges into scalable solutions.
  • Improve the security, observability, performance, quality, and maintainability of owned services.
  • Contribute to technical designs, documentation, operational readiness, and shared engineering practices.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
  • Strong experience designing, building, and operating distributed systems, cloud services, or large-scale backend platforms.
  • Strong technical depth in service architecture, reliability, debugging, performance, security, and operational excellence.
  • Proven ability to lead ambiguous technical work from problem framing through design, execution, deployment, and production support.
  • Strong cross-team collaboration and communication skills, including the ability to influence technical decisions across partner teams.
  • Experience communicating technical concepts clearly to engineering and product stakeholders.

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About Microsoft

10,000+ employees

Every company has a mission. What's ours? To empower every person and every organization to achieve more. We believe technology can and should be a force for good and that meaningful innovation contributes to a brighter world in the future and today. Our culture doesn’t just encourage curiosity; it embraces it. Each day we make progress together by showing up as our authentic selves. We show up with a learn-it-all mentality. We show up cheering on others, knowing their success doesn't diminish our own. We show up every day open to learning our own biases, changing our behavior, and inviting in differences. Because impact matters. Microsoft operates in 190 countries and is made up of approximately 228,000 passionate employees worldwide.

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