Microsoft · 2 days ago
Principal Software Engineer
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$140K/yr - $275K/yr
6+ years expMicrosoft is a leading technology company that empowers every person and organization on the planet to achieve more. The Principal Software Engineer will lead architecture efforts for complex cloud systems, collaborate with engineering partners to design next-generation health and monitoring capabilities, and mentor other engineers while ensuring high-quality engineering practices.
Agentic AIApplication Performance ManagementArtificial Intelligence (AI)Business DevelopmentDevOpsInformation ServicesInformation TechnologyManagement Information SystemsNetwork SecuritySoftware
Responsibilities
Lead architecture efforts for complex products, making design decisions, creating design documents, evaluating new technologies, and ensuring system requirements like performance, compliance and security
Identify and manage dependencies across teams and systems, coordinating collaboration and resolving conflicts to achieve aligned delivery schedules
Lead security best practices including secure code design, security monitoring, and incident response, ensuring compliance with security standards and AI safety features
Mentor and lead coding efforts to produce extensible, maintainable, secure, and high-performance code, improve code quality, and lead debugging and incident retrospectives
Collaborate with partner teams to ensure integrated solutions meet scalability, performance, and operational readiness before going live
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
Qualification
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
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
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 Bachelor'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 equivalent experience
2+ years experience in designing and building high-scale and reliable distributed systems or cloud-scale services
2+ years of proficiency with observability concepts (telemetry, logging, metrics, detection) and operational excellence
1+ year of experience collaborating across teams and delivering exceptional solutions in a fast-paced environment
Company
Microsoft
Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
10001+ employees
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Funding
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Leadership Team
Satya Nadella
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