Microsoft · 1 day ago
Principal Software Engineer
Charlotte, NC
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$140K/yr - $275K/yr
6+ years expMicrosoft is a global technology company that empowers every person and organization on the planet to achieve more. The Principal Software Engineer will be responsible for improving the reliability of key Azure products, defining system reliability goals, and building reusable automation processes to enhance operational efficiency. This role involves providing technical leadership, mentoring, and driving innovation in large-scale operations using cutting-edge AI tools.
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Responsibilities
Defining system reliability goals through Service Level Objectives (SLOs). Enhancing production posture with targeted improvements in observability and operability (telemetry, alerting, incident/change management, safe deployment practices)
Building reusable automation and processes that help multiple teams meet their reliability goals. Influencing product architecture and roadmaps to ensure customer-experienced reliability is a core design principle
Contributing directly to product code to achieve reliability outcomes. Leveraging AI to proactively detect anomalies, predict incidents, and automate operational workflows - scaling reliability efforts across complex systems
Providing technical leadership across multiple Azure teams. Mentoring others on SRE principles, practices, and tools as well as AI usage to boost software development productivity
Designing and developing large-scale distributed software services and solutions. Delivering 'best-in-class' engineering by ensuring services are modular, secure, reliable, testable, diagnosable, observable, and reusable
Collaborating with internal and external partners to support team goals. Balancing pragmatism with vision—driving continuous improvements in process and codebase. Building automation to prevent or remediate service issues before they impact users
Driving innovation in large-scale operations by applying cutting-edge AI tools and techniques to reduce operational toil and scale reliability engineering across complex systems. Gaining a working understanding of Microsoft businesses and contributing to cohesive, end-to-end user experiences
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
5+ years of experience in building, shipping and operating reliable solutions
5+ years of experience with modern distributed software design patterns and cloud systems architecture, including microservices, containers, load balancing, queuing, caching
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role
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
Familiarity with modern distributed software design patterns and cloud systems architecture, including microservices, containers, load balancing, queuing, caching
Experience as a technical lead or engineering manager
Experience working on large and unfamiliar codebases (millions of lines of code)
Experience with open-source projects, Kubernetes, Linux and containers is desired
Experience with data technologies (SQL/NoSQL/etc.)
Experience with Azure is a plus
Experience in AI adoption with tools like GitHub Copilot, Azure OpenAI and custom copilots to streamline development and reduce toil
Company
Microsoft
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