Principal Software Engineer

Microsoft's Substrate is a massively scaled service that forms the backbone of M365 offerings. Our services empower businesses, educational institutions, governments, and individuals worldwide, representing more than a billion users.  

We are on an ambitious journey to reimagine the way we understand, process, and store service data in the era of artificial intelligence. We are building Data Processing and Analytic services within Observability Intelligent Cloud group, Redmond, Washington location (part of Substrate Foundation Organization), empowering artificial intelligence, monitoring, alerting and other scenarios with low cost and full data governance across E2E data life cycle using LLM.  

We are seeking an innovative Principal Software Engineer with a passion for technology. In this role, you will contribute to developing, designing, and operating large-scale data systems that make up our next-generation platform. As a part of our team, your work will have a direct impact on one of the world's most significant platforms.  

As a Principal Software Engineer, you will be working on the following areas:  

• Build data platform infrastructure including framework, pipeline using artificial intelligence.
• Build scalable, high-performance software services over large datasets with low latency and high availability. 
• Ensure the platform adheres to Microsoft’s strict data privacy and compliance standards. 
• You have design and problem-solving skills. You're competent across a broad set of service technologies and have the ability to quickly grasp new products and technologies. You have experience building and operating large-scale data systems.   
• You have a passion for solving complex problems, big data, real-time event processing, and building software at a massive scale.  
• You excel in a team setting and can effectively collaborate with various teams within Microsoft.
• You are driven to explore, create, and inspire others with transformative products.

At Microsoft, we value diversity and ensure all voices are heard. A healthy work-life balance is essential to us, and we're a team that works hard but also knows how to have fun. If you're excited by the opportunity to contribute to transformative technological advances and make an impact on a global scale, this could be the role for you!  

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

As a Principal Software Engineer on the Team, you will be entrusted with responsibilities that are critical to the successful development and evolution of our technology platform. Your responsibilities will include:  

• Design, development and maintenance of software solutions to handle complex data processing scenarios, not only meet current functional and non-functional requirements, also scalable and can adapt to future needs. 

• Collaborate with engineers from within or outsid