Principal Software Engineer
Microsoft
Principal Software Engineer
Hyderabad, Telangana, India
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Overview
At Azure DevOps, we pride ourselves on building services that make engineering teams productive. This is the reason why Azure DevOps is solution of choice for millions of engineers – including thousands of Microsoft largest customers and internal teams. Azure DevOps - https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/devops/ - is a suite of services as part of Microsoft Azure, which provides work planning, repos, CI/CD, test management, and more.
We are looking for creative and driven software engineers with passion for web, services, and/or full stack development to deliver on Azure DevOps Promise – Always available, always Reliable and always responsive. As we enhance our product, we are looking for passionate engineers who can build at scale and solve some hard problems.
As a Principal Engineer for Azure DevOps , you will provide end-to-end technical leadership for a service and/or a platform sub-system. You will help the team with technology tradeoffs, long-term architecture design and suggest methods to enhance product for greater scale. You will be hands-on with component design and coding and mentor others around you on best development practices and site reliability practices. You will lead others by exemplifying technical excellence, inclusiveness, teamwork, and customer focus. You will handle live site and support team in addressing issues comprehensively.
If the above sounds challenging and exciting, we’d love to talk to you.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications:
- BA/BS or MS degree in Computer Science or equivalent field
- 12+ years of industry experience building and shipping software using modern programming languages such as C#, C++, Java, Go or Python
- Track record of successfully leading end-to-end engineering projects from conception to delivery across multiple ship cycles
- Excellent technical design, problem solving and debugging skills
- Customer obsession and passion for shipping high quality products
- Track record of collaborating effectively with multiple cross-functional teams across geographies
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment paradigms
- Experience with high scale SQL.
- Experience building and shipping a large-scale cloud service is a big plus
- Experience with cloud infrastructure such as Azure, AWS or GCP
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and DevOps tools and processes
- Experience working with geo-distributed engineering teams and XFN partners
- Experience in site-reliability engineering practices and supporting scalable live site services
- Experience growing and mentoring senior engineers
Other Requirements
- 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.
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, test, instrument, document and maintain Azure DevOps services in cloud
- Partner with product management, OSS community, ISV partners, customers, and other stakeholders to define requirements, scope projects and ship products in rapid, iterative cycles
- Stay up to date on industry trends around cloud native technologies, open source development and dev ops processes, leading efforts on innovation, modern design, and reliability engineering.
- Champion engineering practices of safe and fast paced releases – e.g. flight code changes and drive telemetry and analytics to take a data-driven approach to understanding customer impact
- Support and influence team culture of customer obsession, continuous improvement, reflection, and growth - mentor, initiate and participate in in design and code sharing
- Be avid customer advocate – meet with customers, and product support to learn about their experience, analyze how features are performing in production and make the product better
- Build for security, privacy, scalability, reliability, and compliance