Principal Software Engineer

What you'll do

• Produce extensible, maintainable, and high-performance code while applying metrics to drive code quality and stability.
• Debug issues proactively and reactively by examining logs, telemetry, and other diagnostic tools to identify root causes.
• Review team code to ensure it meets Microsoft’s standards for reliability, accuracy, and scalability.
• Lead architectural discussions, create design documents, and own technical decisions for product solutions with minimal oversight.
• Create and manage comprehensive testing plans, including unit tests and automated features, to ensure high test coverage.
• Identify system dependencies and develop design documents that account for upstream and downstream effects on security and performance.
• Align with stakeholders to incorporate user requirements and actionable metrics into future designs and solution fixes.

What we're looking for

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline and 6+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in languages like C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python (or equivalent experience).
• Ability to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire and every two years thereafter.
• 10+ years of software engineering experience (preferred).
• Proven track record of delivering large-scale services or products (preferred).
• Experience leading complex cross-team initiatives (preferred).
• Deep expertise in distributed systems, cloud computing, system architecture, performance and scalability, and security and reliability engineering (preferred).
• Proficiency in C#, Java, C++, Python, Go, and Azure technologies (preferred).
• Leadership skills including strategic thinking, technical influence without direct authority, executive-level communication, stakeholder management, and organizational problem solving (preferred).