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Microsoft · 13 hours ago

Principal Software Engineer

Microsoft is a global technology company known for its innovative products and services. They are seeking a Principal Software Engineer to work on OneDrive and SharePoint, focusing on large-scale distributed architectures and core infrastructure needs. The role involves collaborating with various teams to enhance system performance, ensure business continuity, and mentor other engineers.

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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 knowledge of cross-product features with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to drive multiple groups' 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

Qualification

CC++C#JavaPythonJavaScriptREST APIsCloud-scale servicesSecure software designAlgorithm designDebuggingProblem-solving skillsMentoringCollaboration

Required

Bachelor'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
6+ years of experience collaborating with partner teams to meet the engineering goals in a unified manner
6+ years of delivering and interacting with REST API's and web services across multiple systems

Preferred

Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 12+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python + OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 15+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python + OR equivalent experience
6+ years experience of cloud-scale services and server/service management features
6+ years experience coding, debugging, algorithm design and problem-solving skills
Experience with building cloud-scale infrastructure components
Awareness, passion, and experience related to cloud scale distributed design and patterns
Familiar with secure software design concepts

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.

H1B Sponsorship

Microsoft has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
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2024 (9343)
2023 (7677)
2022 (11403)
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2020 (7852)

Funding

Current Stage
Public Company
Total Funding
$1M
Key Investors
Technology Venture Investors
2022-12-09Post Ipo Equity
1986-03-13IPO
1981-09-01Series Unknown· $1M

Leadership Team

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Satya Nadella
Chairman and CEO
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Vukani Mngxati
Chief Executive Officer - Microsft South Africa
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