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Original Job Post

Microsoft · 1 week ago

Principal Data and Software Engineer

Redmond, WA

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level

$138K/yr - $267K/yr

6+ years exp

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Responsibilities

Collaborating with a diverse team of Technical Program Managers, Security Researchers, Data Scientists, and Engineers.

Designing, architecting, and developing high quality, robust, highly scalable, reliable, and secure services and pipelines within a data-rich environment.

Evaluating, proposing, and developing innovative tools, technologies, and strategies to enhance our end-to-end data workflows.

Expanding the capabilities of our data model by understanding dependencies across projects and leading conversations with stakeholders to make iterative improvements to design specifications, data models, and schemas.

Creating, managing, and optimizing data pipelines to support various workflows.

Developing and maintaining data pipelines and back-end services for real-time decision-making, reporting, optimization, and data collection.

Designing and implementing monitoring systems and dashboards to maintain the health and integrity of our data feeds and pipelines.

Providing mentorship, conducting code reviews, and promoting best practices to ensure the highest quality of data engineering.

Contributing to the strategic vision, architecture, and execution of our data platform and self-serve data analytics systems.

Qualification

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Data ProcessingDistributed EnvironmentsSecurity ScreeningMicrosoft Cloud Background CheckGITAutomated Build SystemsCompilersProject Tracking SystemsCloud DevelopmentLoosely-Coupled ArchitecturesMicroservicesDev-Ops ModelsDistributed SystemsSystems Health MeasurementStatically Typed LanguagesMapReduceSparkMPICUDACybersecurityProblem-SolvingSelf-TeachingAdaptability

Required

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Math, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field AND 6+ years experience in business analytics, data science, software development, data modeling or data engineering work

OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Math, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field AND 4+ year(s) experience in business analytics, data science, software development, or data engineering work

OR equivalent experience

+3 years of experience in processing large volumes of data in distributed environments

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

Preferred

Familiarity with software development tools such as GIT, automated build systems, compilers, and project tracking systems

Experience with cloud development principles and patterns, including loosely-coupled architectures, microservices, dev-ops models, and distributed systems

Proficiency in measuring the health and effectiveness of systems

Demonstrated ability and motivation to self-teach and navigate through ambiguity

Familiarity with at least 1 statically typed language (C#, Java, C, C++, Fortran, etc) and familiarity with data processing in a distributed environment (MapReduce, Spark, MPI, CUDA, etc)

Passion for cybersecurity is a plus, although previous experience or knowledge is not required

Benefits

Benefits and other compensation details can be found here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

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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