Microsoft · 2 days ago

Principal Software Engineer

Burlington, MA

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level

$138K/yr - $267K/yr

6+ years exp

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Responsibilities

Collaborate with stakeholders to determine user requirements and incorporate insights into designs.

Lead the incorporation of continuous feedback loops to measure customer value and usage patterns.

Lead architecture discussions, create proposals, and work together with other team members. Ensure system architecture meets security and compliance requirements while taking observability, reliability, and global scaling into account.

Own delivery of new features and services end-to-end, including relevant cloud infrastructure changes.

Produce maintainable and testable code at high quality. Provide expertise in coding and validation strategy, and ensure code meets quality standards.

Drive project plans and release plans, break down vision into milestones, and guide project estimation.

Lead experimentation to determine the effectiveness of changes.

Maintain operations of live services, develop playbooks for issue resolution and then implement automations for those playbooks to avoid ever needing them. Ensure solutions are scalable and meet compliance guidelines.

Enhance and contribute to software developer tools, apply automation within production, and stay current with technological developments.

Provide mentoring to colleagues and peers across the organization

Actively participate in the on-call rotation.

Embody our culture and values.

Qualification

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Distributed SystemsCloud ServicesStakeholder ManagementSecurity ScreeningProblem-SolvingInterpersonal CommunicationFedRAMP Security ClearanceAI TechnologiesSoftware ImplementationMonitoringGen AICommunication

Required

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Python, Kotlin, or others

Proven experience in designing, developing, and operating distributed systems and/or services in the cloud

Experience working with stakeholders

Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role