Principal Software Engineer

Microsoft Azure is building the fastest cloud network in the world. We are seeking candidate who live and breathe systems software development, love working closely with hardware to build network systems software and services, taking things from idea to production. The Azure Host Networking team is where the rubber meets the road for Software-Defined Networking (SDN) – we create the host data path that allows SDN controllers to perform arbitrary packet manipulations and virtualization at very high speed.

As a Principal Software Engineer, you'll build the world’s fastest public cloud and make a difference to millions of people across the planet. We are seeking an experienced and visionary Principal Software Engineer to lead our fundamentals efforts to ensure the reliability, performance, and scalability of our products across various platforms. You will provide technical leadership and guidance to the larger fundamentals team. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to define and execute the fundamentals strategy. You will drive innovation and best practices in fundamentals design, implementation, and testing. You will also mentor and coach team members to enhance their technical skills.

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.

 

In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.

Responsibilities

• Partners with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a set of scenarios.
• Leads identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.
• Leads by example and mentors others to produce extensible and maintainable code used across products.
• Leverages subject-matter expertise of cross-product features with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to drive multiple group's project plans, release plans, and work items.
• Holds accountability as a 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.
• Embody our Culture and Values. 

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline 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.

Other Requirements:

• 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.
• Experience with performance optimization of systems software AND server-class network hardware.
• Demonstrated ability to work with internal and external partners.

 

 

Software Engineering IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $133,600 - $256,800 per year. There is a different range appli