Microsoft · 23 hours ago
Principal Software Engineer (Multiple Positions)
United States, Washington, Redmond
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$140K/yr - $275K/yr
6+ years expMicrosoft is building a planet-scale multi-modal database and infrastructure for executing agents, integrating Artificial Intelligence into their systems. The Principal Software Engineer will lead a team, focusing on operations, deployment, monitoring, and maintaining service levels for enterprise customers.
Agentic AIApplication Performance ManagementArtificial Intelligence (AI)Business DevelopmentDevOpsInformation ServicesInformation TechnologyManagement Information SystemsNetwork SecuritySoftware
Responsibilities
This is an individual contributor that requires leadership capabilities and requires hands-on coding in C++, C#/Java
Independently execute in the face of ambiguity
Leads identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform
Writes efficient systems code and able to debug distributed systems
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
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#, or Java
+ OR equivalent experience
This is an individual contributor that requires leadership capabilities and requires hands-on coding in C++, C#/Java
Independently execute in the face of ambiguity
Leads identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform
Writes efficient systems code and able to debug distributed systems
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
Preferred
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#, Java
+ OR equivalent experience
Experience in shipping products and reliable, scalable services
Currently programming/coding in your current or most recent role
Hands on experience with asynchronous programming and concurrency (threads, tasks, futures, async/await)
Experience with Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), and/or Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
Experience in building database engines, query engines, indexing solutions (columnar, full-text, vector), at scale
Experience with programming CUDA, AI systems at scale
Experience with live site operations, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) or production support roles
Experience with Helm
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
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$1MKey Investors
Technology Venture Investors
2022-12-09Post Ipo Equity
1986-03-13IPO
1981-09-01Series Unknown· $1M
Leadership Team
Satya Nadella
Chairman and CEO
Vukani Mngxati
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