Principal Software Engineer
Microsoft
Principal Software Engineer
Multiple Locations, United States
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Overview
OneFleet platform team in Azure is responsible for building and managing distributed systems that serve as a building block for services in Azure. The team is responsible for building and operating a PubSub service on top of Apache Kafka and a Distributed Coordinator service on top of Apache Zookeeper that runs in every Azure datacenter all over the world (300+ clusters). We collaborate closely with teams in Azure to deliver their scenarios and look for opportunities to build platform solutions. The mission of our team is to evolve Azure control plane services to event driven micro services architecture with data being at its core.
As the Principal Software Engineer in our team, you will help us evolve the foundational services to meet the new requirements of our partners and scale the services to meet the growth of Azure. You will help us build and operate a new Key/Value cache service and help us build a new observability solution for Azure control plane services. You will collaborate with other teams in Azure Core to leverage existing foundational services and build new platform solutions when required. You will have opportunities for mentorship, career growth, and work in high-business impact areas.
We value people who can bring a diverse perspective to our team, and where an engineer will not just write code but will have a meaningful impact on the direction of the service and which features to build. We are building a team where diversity of thought and background is valued as strongly as technical skills, and where everyone is encouraged to produce innovative ideas.
Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
- OR equivalent experience
- 4+ years of experience in designing, coding, and debugging large-scale systems and taking them to production
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:
- Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science OR related technical field AND 10+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, or Rust
- OR Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, or Rust
- OR equivalent experience
- Experience in analyzing and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems
- Experience operating distributed systems like Kafka, Cassandra, Redis or Spark
Software Engineering IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $139,900 - $274,800 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $188,000 - $304,200 per year.
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay
Microsoft will accept applications for the role until July 14, 2025.
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Responsibilities
- Partners with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a set of scenarios.
- Leads identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.
- Leads by example and mentors others to produce extensible and maintainable code used across products.
- Leverages subject-matter expertise of cross-product features with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to drive multiple group's project plans, release plans, and work items.
- Holds accountability as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI), mentoring engineers across products/solutions, working on-call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions.
- Proactively seeks new knowledge and adapts to new trends, technical solutions, and patterns that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale and shares knowledge with other engineers.