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Original Job Post

Microsoft · 1 week ago

Principal Software Engineer

Mountain View, CA

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level

$138K/yr - $267K/yr

6+ years exp

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Responsibilities

Collaborates with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a scenario.

Drives identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.

Creates, implements, optimizes, debugs, refactors, and reuses code to establish and improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI).

Leverages subject-matter expertise of product features and partners with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to drive a workgroup's project plans, release plans, and work items.

Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and guides other engineers by developing and following the playbook, working on call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions, alerting stakeholders about status and initiates actions to restore system/product/service for simple and complex problems when appropriate.

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.

Qualification

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Distributed Systems DesignCloud TechnologySecurity ScreeningProblem-SolvingAdaptabilityRESTful APIsMicroservicesDistributed SystemsData StructuresSoftware DesignSoftware PatternsSoftware Best PracticesAlgorithmsTestingDebuggingTroubleshootingProduction Service IssuesC/C++/C#Java

Required

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.

3+ years of experiences in designing and building large scale distributed systems

1+ years of working with cloud-based technology

Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role.

Preferred

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, JavaScript, OR Python + 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, JavaScript, or Python + OR equivalent experience.

Experience with RESTful APIs, microservices, distributed systems, and data structures.

Knowledge of software design principles, patterns, and best practices.

Understanding in data structures and algorithms with testing, debugging, and analytical skills.

Experience with troubleshooting/debugging and resolving complex production service issues at scale

3+ years of experience in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting distributed systems.

5+ years of professional development experience in C/C++/C#/Java.

Company

Microsoft

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Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.

Founded in 1975

Redmond, Washington, USA

10,001+ employees

https://www.microsoft.com

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