Principal Software Engineer

Azure Legion is the backbone of Azure Container Apps and Azure Functions Flex Consumption. It is a newly built, fast growing, highly optimized service with capabilities such as supporting burst scale to 1000s of virtualization isolated Linux instances with dynamic VNET injection. Today it manages more one million cores and handles 10,000 container allocations every minute with P99.9 sub-second latency.

We are a team that loves pushing the limits of performance and scalability by going deep in the stack.

We are looking for Principal Software Engineer to join the team for taking the platform forward in their evolution.

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond

Required/Minimum Qualifications: 

• 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.
• 5+ years technical engineering experience designing and delivering highly available, large-scale cloud services and distributed systems

Other Requirements:

Preferred/Additional Qualifications:

• 12+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C++, C#, Go, Java, or Python
• 4+ years of technical engineering experience with machine learning model development, release, and operations
• Ability to navigate the company and influence and inspire peers in engineering and broad product development
• Demonstrate depth of knowledge and understanding of software architecture, design tradeoffs, and practices of mature DevOps culture
• Track record of pursuing and delivering innovative insights that translate to value generation

Software Engineering IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $139,900 - $274,800 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $188,000 - $304,200 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

Microsoft posts positions for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

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• Architect, design, and develop large-scale distributed cloud services and solutions with a focus on high availability, scalability, robustness, and observability.
• Lead project development across the organization and work with subject matter experts and stakeholders to drive development and release plans.
• Evaluate alternative architectures and technologies that best fit the business requirements and service KPIs.
• Take end-to-end responsibility for the development lifecycle and production readiness of the services you build and drive the team’s DevOps culture.
• Drive and uphold the best practices of modern software engineering through code and design reviews and take effective service decisions based on data and telemetry.
• Holds accountability as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI), mentoring engineers across products/solutions, working on-call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions. As a DRI, reproduce, debug and fix customer-reported problems.
• Provides technical leadership for the identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.
• Understand Microsoft businesses and collaborate with stakeholders towards cohesive, end-to-end experiences for Microsoft customers.
• Embrace a growth mindset and stay up to date with the current and state-of-the-art technologies to improve customer experience and better serve the product’s business needs.