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Company

Microsoft · 3 days ago

Principal Software Engineer

Santa Clara, CA

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$138K/yr - $267K/yr

6+ years exp

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Responsibilities

Collaborate with stakeholders to understand business needs and translate them into technical requirements and solutions.

Work across team and organizational boundaries to drive clarity and alignment.

Drives identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.

Drives, creates, implements, optimizes, debugs, refactors, and reuses code to establish and improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI).

Conduct research, stay updated with the latest industry trends, and experiment with cutting-edge technologies to drive innovation.

Leverages subject-matter expertise of product features and partners with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to drive a workgroup's project plans, release plans, and work items.

Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and guides other engineers by developing and following the playbook, working on call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions, alerting stakeholders about status and initiates actions to restore system/product/service for simple and complex problems when appropriate.

Proactively seeks new knowledge and adapts to new trends, technical solutions, and patterns that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale.

Coaching and mentorship of fellow team members.

Effective communication skills and a passion for delivering scalable solutions through a diverse team of engineers.

Qualification

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CC++Networking Software DevelopmentLayer2/L3/L4 NetworkingPythonJavaJavaScriptRDMA ForwardingCI/CDScripting for Developer ToolsSoftware Design

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, or Python + OR equivalent experience.

4+ years of experience in software design and coding of Layer2/L3/L4 ethernet/IP networking data plane packet forwarding and control plane processing functions within a programmable NIC or network switches and routers or an architecture with hardware offload

4+ years of programming experience in C

2+ years of experience in developing networking software stack for RDMA forwarding or control plane functions

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

Experience in developing networking software on DPUs or programmable NICs or other hardware offload architectures.

Experience in developing technologies for reliable data transfer across network with efficient fabric utilization and deterministic latency.

CI/CD Experience: Knowledge of Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) practices for streamlined software development and deployment processes.

Scripting for Developer Tools: Proficiency in scripting languages to build and enhance developer tools, automating repetitive tasks and improving workflow efficiency.

Company

Microsoft

Glassdoor

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Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.

Founded in 1975

Redmond, Washington, USA

10001+ employees

https://www.microsoft.com

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