Microsoft · 12 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 focused on empowering individuals and organizations globally. They are seeking a Principal Software Engineer to design, build, and operate network security services for Azure, with responsibilities including architecture design, component ownership, and collaboration with internal and external teams.
Agentic AIApplication Performance ManagementArtificial Intelligence (AI)Business DevelopmentDevOpsInformation ServicesInformation TechnologyManagement Information SystemsNetwork SecuritySoftware
Responsibilities
Works with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a set of features
Contributes to the identification of dependencies, and the development of design documents for a product area with little oversight
Creates and implements code for a product, service, or feature, reusing code as applicable
Contributes efforts to break down larger work items into smaller work items and provides estimation
Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) working on-call to monitor system/product feature/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions and gain approval to restore system/product/service for simple problems
Remains current in skills by investing time and effort into staying abreast of current developments that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale
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
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
Proficient understanding of AI, Large language models (LLMs), and Model Context Protocol (MCP) security principles
1+ years experience with Kubernetes and wider Cloud native / Container ecosystem
Contribution to open-source software projects is a plus
6+ years of experience in one or more of the following areas: Security: Intrusion Detection Prevention System (IDPS) - Suricata, Snort, Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) - Application ID (AppID), Data Leak Prevention (DLP), Extended Berkeley Packet Filter (eBPF), Internet Protocol (IP) - tables
L7 proxy: Envoy, Nginx, High Availability Proxy (HAproxy)
Network protocols: Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP), User Datagram Protocol (UDP), Domain Name System (DNS), Hypertext Transfer Protocol/Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTP/HTTPS), Transport Layer Security (TLS), Secure Socket Layer (SSL) termination, etc
1+ years experience in C# or Java, C++, Golang, Google Remote Procedure Calls (gRPC), Linux/Unix systems, including: Container platforms and technologies: Kubernetes etc
Virtualization: hypervisors, Virtual Machine (VM) switching, performance optimization, hardware offloads
Distributed systems
Designing and running large-scale fault-tolerant infrastructure services
Representational State Transfer (RESTful) Services
Company
Microsoft
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