Principal Software Engineer

Microsoft; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 294,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to join their Azure Compute team in San Francisco. This role focuses on ensuring high availability of Azure VMs and involves designing distributed systems while collaborating with cross-functional teams. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in software engineering, particularly in coding and system architecture, and a passion for building reliable and efficient cloud solutions.

Qualifications

• 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages like C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
• 4+ years of experience working in distributed systems.
• 2+ years of experience in leading design and architecture.

Responsibilities

• Partners with stakeholders to determine project requirements.
• Leads design and architecture of change management features.
• Develops high quality, maintainable code and mentors others.

Skills

C

C++

C#

Java

JavaScript

Python

Distributed Systems

Problem Solving

Debugging

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

Master's Degree in Computer Science

Job description

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The Azure Compute team, builds a fault tolerant, distributed system on top of commodity datacenter hardware, to deliver infrastructure for hosting cloud applications in virtual machines (VMs). The team creates an illusion that resources are limitless, infinitely elastic, and always available.

This role is in the Availability Platform team, within Azure Compute, that primarily focuses on making sure every Azure VM is available with an Service Level Agreement (SLA) of 99.99+%. Getting to that target and beyond requires out-of-the box thinking, backed by sound data-driven decisions. The team owns the services that measure the health of millions of Azure machine as well as the control plane services that make all repair decisions in Azure. The team also collaborates closely with data scientists to build predictive failure models to live migrate VMs off machines even before the failure occurs. VM availability is one of the top KPIs for Azure and Microsoft – come be part of the team driving the platform forward on this front.

As a Principal Software Engineer, you will be joining a talented team that invests in our people and technology for the long term. We emphasize comprehensive designs, incremental development with high quality, shipping frequently, and adapting quickly to customer feedback. Join us in pushing the boundaries of scale, reliability, availability, and efficiency. If you want hands-on services architecture experience at large scale, this is the role for you.

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.

Responsibilities

• Partners with appropriate stakeholders spanning across teams and orgs to determine project requirements
• Leads the design and architecture of change management features and services in Azure Compute
• Identifies dependencies and authors design documents for features and services.
• Leverages expertise with appropriate stakeholders to develop project plans, release plans, and work items.
• Develops high quality, extensible, maintenable code and coaches others to do the same.
• Supports livesite as Designated Responsible Individual (DRI), mentoring engineers across products/solutions, working on-call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions.
• 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 and shares knowledge with other engineers.
  
  

Qualifications

Required 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.
• 4+ years of experience working in distributed systems.
• 2+ years of experience in leading the design and architecture of change management features and services
  

Other Qualifications

• 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 Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 10+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
• OR 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 equivalent experience.
• Demonstrated:
• ability and passion for designing and building highly available distributed systems at scale;
• problem solving and debugging skills;
• ability to exercise sound judgment in ambiguous situations.
• Experience with agile methodologies, a willingness to adopt them is required.
• Experience working with hardware level is a plus.
  

Software Engineering IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $137,600 - $267,000 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 $180,400 - $294,000 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 will accept applications for the role until May 27, 2025.

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Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Not Applicable

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Engineering and Information Technology

• Industries

  Software Development

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