Microsoft

Principal Software Engineer

United States, Washington, Redmond · Principal

Sponsorship not specified$143k-$275kDetected 15 hours ago

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About the role

As a foundational dependency of the cloud and a prime target for sophisticated threat actors, we engineer every capability with an uncompromising focus on security, resilience, and reliability.

Provide technical leadership and mentorship across teams delivering security and resilience critical capabilities, setting architectural direction and raising the bar on quality through design leadership, code reviews, and direct hands-on technical engagement and coding
Own and drive engineering fundamentals at the platform level, shaping investment priorities and proactively identifying and addressing systemic risks related to performance, scale, resilience, testability, and security across the organization
Lead innovation in the application of AI by defining strategy and guiding adoption of AI driven tools to improve engineering productivity, while also shaping and delivering AI agents that automate operational and engineering workflows at scale
Own live site excellence for the platform by serving as an oncall during high severity production events, and by engaging deeply in the pre-mortem and post-mortem processes to drive durable learnings and systemic fixes across multiple services
We build and operate services and experiences that power everything from core Azure infrastructure to critical customer workloads and AI agents.
As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals.

6+ years of experience designing and implementing features of high-scale distributed cloud services
3+ years of experience as a technical lead, driving strategic decisions and delivering high-impact technical results
2+ years of hands-on experience designing SDKs or client-side frameworks, with a deep interest in performance engineering, latency reduction, and efficient resource utilization.
Experience leading cross-functional engineering efforts across distributed teams.
Experience delivering customer-facing software products or platform capabilities in production environments.
Demonstrated proficiency around leveraging AI to build AI systems and a passion to make this technology accessible to everyone
Proven record of identifying challenges, making clear judgment calls on tradeoffs, and making systemic changes for lasting impact, while bringing value to customer quickly.
Clarity in communication and ability to influence without authority when stakes are high.
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role.
This position will be required to pass the Microsoft background and Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more.
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Define and own the long term technical strategy for service to service authentication, aligning that vision with organizational goals and communicating it effectively to senior leadership and other stakeholders

Translate long term strategy into actionable shorter-term execution plans by driving technical and organizational consensus across multiple engineering teams, partner organizations, customers, and leadership, and ensuring successful delivery
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.

equal opportunity employer.
If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the

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

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