Azure Core is the engine of Microsoft’s Cloud, powering infrastructure that is the foundation for cloud computing. Within Azure Core, the Compute Platform Team builds the control plane and lifecycle management of key resources including Virtual Machines, Scale Sets, Images, and Serverless containers. The usage of the compute resources is growing at a tremendous rate as more customers adopt and scale on cloud. 

As a Principal Software Engineer on the Compute Platform team, you will develop microservices and components that are responsible for managing 10s of millions of Linux and Windows virtual machines with billions of transactions every day. You will learn and operate in a fast-paced, supportive environment collaborating with highly skilled engineers, leads, and executives. The growth opportunities are exciting with opportunities to positively impact Azure customers 24/7. 

This engineering role will provide you opportunities to build new skill sets, gain expertise in cloud technologies, grow your career, and deliver impact at a planet scale. You will work with an amazing cohort of peers focused on delivering the promise of cloud to digitally transform a broad set of industries.

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. #azurecorejobs

Responsibilities

• Partners with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements and features for a set of scenarios.

• Leads the design and building distributed services that are secure, scalable, reliable, and performant.

• Creates, implements, optimizes, debugs, refactors, and reuses code to establish and improve performance and resilience, maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI).

• Defines customer success metrics and engineer services to meet and exceed the goals.

• Leverages subject-matter expertise of cross-product features and partners with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to drive multiple group's project plans, release plans, and work items.

• Partners with other teams to build integrated end-to-end experiences. 

• Leads identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.

• Operates services in production, meeting a high bar on monitoring, detection, and resolution of issues with live services.

• Leads by example and mentors others to produce extensible and maintainable code used across products.

• Communicates clearly, accurately, and timely in written and spoken forms.

• Proactively seeks new knowledge and adapts to new trends, technical solutions, and patterns that will improve the availability, resilience, efficiency, observability, and performance of cloud services 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 extended experience in technical engineering 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 with senior level technical field AND technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python

• OR equivalent experience.

• Experience designing complex software services and components.

• Experience building services hosted in Cloud.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in building scalable resilient services hosted in the Cloud.

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.

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 (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html) .