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Company

Microsoft · 19 hours ago

Principal Software Engineer

New York, NY

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 and able to analyze issues on a FedRamp certified system.

Embody our culture and values.

Qualification

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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 + OR equivalent experience.

Proficient 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. 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.

Citizenship & Citizenship Verification: This position requires verification of citizenship due to citizenship-based legal restrictions. Specifically, this position supports United States federal, state, and/or local government agency customers and is subject to certain citizenship-based restrictions where required or permitted by applicable law. To meet this legal requirement, and as a condition of employment, the successful candidate’s citizenship will be verified with a valid passport.