Microsoft · 15 hours ago
Principal Software Architect
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$140K/yr - $275K/yr
6+ years expMicrosoft is a leading technology company dedicated to empowering every person and organization on the planet. As a Principal Software Architect, you will be responsible for the technical design and vision of scalable architectures for distributed systems, focusing on high throughput query-ability and AI integration to enhance customer experiences.
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Responsibilities
You are responsible for the technical design and vision for building the necessary underlying systems to enable high throughput query-ability or high throughput ingestion-services in the platform with ambitious performance goals
Design scalable architectures for distributed systems that integrate machine learning and intelligent agents
Partner across Azure to build platform capabilities that accelerate AI adoption and unlock new customer experiences
Define and lead the strategy for ARG’s evolution into big data and LLM/agentic services
Guide engineering teams in building high-performance, future-ready services with immediate customer and business impact
Achieving quality results with laser customer focus
Build distributed micro-services in the area of proprietary columnar databases, replication, batching, agentic, indexing, change tracking, insights, and in defining graph models
Focus on end-to-end services, development, and deployment
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
8+ years deep hands-on working knowledge of building a true cloud-scale services
10+ year experience in one of the object-oriented programming languages including runtime internals like C#, Java, etc
5+ years operational experience in running your service in one of the large-scale clouds like Azure, AWS, GCP
5+ years of exposure to the internals of databases, stores
You exercise the power of principles when it comes to choices or decisions with practical knowledge of applying these principles. These are applicable for Code as well as Design
5+ years of hands-on working knowledge of building true cloud-scale services
2+ years of exposure to the internals of databases, stores
4+ years of exposure to the internals of Big Data Systems like Spark, Kubernetes, Structured Streaming etc
1+ year of exposure with LLMs/RAG/Agentic
Benefits
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
Company
Microsoft
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