Microsoft

Principal Software Engineer

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4 days ago
Noida, India +2 moreStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Build and operate the Azure MySQL managed database service at massive global scale.
  • Own technical problems end to end and make pragmatic, high-impact decisions.
  • Write clean, reliable, and maintainable code under pressure.
  • Lead technical decisions independently, mentor engineers, and collaborate cross-functionally.
  • Design and scale distributed systems and stateful services, including control plane and service orchestration patterns.
  • Deliver database services across thousands of machines and dozens of data centers.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related technical field and 8+ 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: master’s degree with 8+ years of experience, or bachelor’s degree with 10+ years of experience, or equivalent experience.
  • Experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems or cloud services.
  • Strong programming skills and deep knowledge of a programming language, standard libraries, data structures, and algorithms.
  • Proven ability to lead technical decisions, mentor engineers, work cross-functionally, and deliver reliable code.
  • Preferred familiarity with control plane design, service orchestration, scaling stateful distributed services, database internals, performance tuning, failover, replication, Linux troubleshooting, memory dumps, and low-level performance.
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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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