Microsoft · 10 hours 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, and they are seeking a Principal Software Engineer to join their Azure Resource Graph team. The role involves technical design and vision for systems that enable query-ability on large cloud inventories, while optimizing performance and collaborating with cross-functional teams on Project Galaxy.
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Responsibilities
You are responsible for the technical design and vision for building the necessary underlying systems to enable query-ability on the massively large, connected graph cloud inventory to serve billions of resources per day to the callers
Responsible for optimizing the runtime of the distributed system and the query engine to achieve ambitious performance goals right from the entry point of the cloud to the lowest layer in the architecture and everything in between
Leverage the standard authorization engine of the cloud for secure access control across the system while not compromising on the performant corpus query-ability scale
Work closely with cross-functional teams across Azure Core and Microsoft to drive architecture, design, and development of Project Galaxy effort
Lead by example. You are a hands-on practitioner of standards in the team, organization
You will provide strong technical leadership, raising the technical bar, maintaining data and results-driven culture, nurture a team culture of high collaboration and trust
Your ability to balance the long-term architecture while delivering the incremental milestones with simplicity and maintainability as core tenets will advance the Galaxy effort semester over semester towards the North Star goals
You will be a role model for an open, honest, and inclusive approach to problem solving
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#, or Java
OR equivalent experience
6+ years of experience in one of the object-oriented programming languages including runtime internals like C#, Java, etc
4+ years of operational experience in running your service in one of the large-scale clouds like Azure, AWS, GCP
2+ years of experience providing technical leadership, raising the technical bar, maintaining data and results-driven culture while closely working with cross function teams for the same connected mission
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 10+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, OR Python
OR 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 equivalent experience
4+ years deep hands-on working knowledge of building a true cloud-scale services
2+ years of exposure to the internals of databases, stores
2+ years experience leveraging fundamental principles to guide your choices and decisions, applying these principles practically in both coding and design
Company
Microsoft
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