Principal Software Engineer - Azure Resource Graph at Microsoft Corporation Mountain View, CA

MSU Solutions GmbH; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 137,600 - 267,000; Full time

Job summary

Microsoft Corporation in Mountain View, CA seeks a Principal Software Engineer for Azure Resource Graph to lead architecture and critical initiatives for a billions- resource graph. You will advance a high‑scale, secure inventory platform and mentor engineers across Azure Core and Microsoft teams.

You will shape the next generation of connected graph capabilities, balancing long‑term design with practical milestones while upholding performance and security standards in a cloud environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field and 6+ years of engineering experience, or equivalent experience.
• 2+ years distributed storage systems experience.
• Ability to meet security screening requirements as part of the application process.

Responsibilities

• Define and communicate the technical design and vision for the underlying systems enabling query-ability on a massive, connected graph inventory.
• Optimize runtime and query engine performance across distributed architectures to meet ambitious goals.
• Leverage the cloud's authorization engine for secure access control while maintaining high performance.
• Collaborate with Azure Core and Microsoft teams to drive architecture and development of the Project Galaxy effort.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineers, and balance long-term architecture with incremental milestones.

Skills

C

C++

C#

Python

Distributed storage systems

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

Master's Degree in Computer Science

Job description

Principal Software Engineer - Azure Resource Graph job at Microsoft Corporation. Mountain View, CA.

Azure Resource Graph’s (ARG) mission is to reliably organize the planet‑scale cloud inventory and make it accessible to every Azure customer through scalable and performant tools. ARG is the inventory of cloud resources, dependencies, services, apps & Azure metadata and is a core service enabling almost all Azure experiences and workloads that run on top of Azure. Azure Portal, Azure Marketplace, Search, Catalog at‑scale experiences, and scenarios for every single Azure customer are powered by ARG. It provides a single pane of glass to query cloud resources via a set of flexible standards with rich scalable, efficient constructs. These standards and toolsets are used by large customers and first‑party teams alike. ARG’s vision is to enable any customer (large to small) to organize, govern, secure, manage and explore their environments at‑scale. Anything we design, develop, or deliver aligns with this vision. As of today, we return close to 6.5+billion cloud resources per day through these standards to our customers and independent software vendors.

As a Principal Software Engineer – Azure Resource Graph, you will lead product architecture and a few critical initiatives to evolve the inventory platform for the upcoming needs in the space of connected query‑ability. You will help build the next generation connected graph of billions of resources and trillions of edges and provide query‑ability with a standard authorization engine at large input scopes along with ambitious performance goals. This opportunity will allow you to exercise your skills in the areas of distributed systems, runtime, database/store internals to build the necessary infrastructure for Azure for the mission that we call code‑named ProjectGalaxy effort. This role will also help you build deep business acumen about Azure. You will create clarity for the team and mentor team members by creating a sense of purpose on this mission.

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

• You are responsible for the technical design and vision for building the necessary underlying systems to enable query-ability on the massively large, connected graph cloud inventory to serve billions of resources per day to the callers.
• You are responsible for optimizing the runtime of the distributed system and the query engine to achieve ambitious performance goals right from the entry point of the cloud to the lowest layer in the architecture and everything in between.
• You will leverage the standard authorization engine of the cloud for secure access control across the system while not compromising on the performant corpus query-ability scale.
• You will work closely with cross-functional teams across Azure Core and Microsoft to drive architecture, design, and development of Project Galaxy effort.
• You lead by example. You are a hands‑on practitioner of standards in the team, organization.
• You will provide strong technical leadership, raising the technical bar, maintaining data and results‑driven culture, nurture a team culture of high collaboration and trust.
• Your ability to balance the long‑term architecture while delivering the incremental milestones with simplicity and maintainability as core tenets will advance the Galaxy effort semester over semester towards the North Star goals.

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#, or Python
• OR equivalent experience.
• 2+ years of distributed storage systems experience.

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 twoyears 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, 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, or Python
• OR equivalent experience.
• Prior Software development experience, in delivering large scale cloud services with a fearless mindset to tackle intrinsically hard technical problems.
• Delivering large scale data-intensive applications and their building blocks with an ability to go after in-depth understanding of internals, and their relevant principles.
• Demonstrated experience of leading company-wide initiatives spanning multiple teams and organizations and leveraging deep domain expertise to influence tech roadmap planning and execution.
• Architecture sanity, setting patterns and standards in everything you design and deliver.
• Leadership and mentorship skills and will be responsible for guiding and motivating a team of skilled engineers, empowering them to work independently while fostering a positive team culture.
• Additionally, you will provide technical coaching and support to ensure the team has the necessary resources and guidance to succeed.

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 SanFrancisco Bay area and NewYork 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:

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until May1,2025.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations ( .