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Company

Microsoft · 22 hours ago

Principal Software Engineer

United States

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$162K/yr - $286K/yr

8+ years exp

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Responsibilities

Partners with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for one or more complex scenarios.

Provides technical leadership for the 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 the company.

Leverages deep subject-matter expertise of cross-product features with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to lead multiple product'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.

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Qualification

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Required

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND 8+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, or Rust OR equivalent experience.

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

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 12+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, or Rust OR Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 10+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, or Rust OR equivalent experience.

6+ years people management experience.

Knowledge of Windows and/or Linux OS networking and storage stacks; AND Windows and/or Linux hypervisors and network/storage virtualization subsystems.

Experience in the following: performance optimization of systems software; hardware-software codesign projects; driving quality and reliability for large-scale deployed systems.

Familiarity with datacenter-class networking and storage acceleration hardware.

Demonstrated ability to work with internal and external partners on hardware and software.

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

10001+ employees

https://www.microsoft.com

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