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Posted date: Apr 04, 2025
There have been 2 jobs posted with the title of Principal Architect all time at Microsoft.Category: Software Engineering
Location: Redmond, WA
Estimated salary: $238,000
Range: $161,600 - $314,400
Employment type: Full-Time
Travel amount: 25.0%
Work location type: Up to 50% work from home
Role: Individual Contributor
Description
Are you passionate about storage and building industry leading software and services? Office 365 is the locomotive that is driving the growing Microsoft valuation, and critical to the future of Microsoft. OneDrive and SharePoint (ODSP) are the set of intelligent, high value services and compliant environment that is enabling the next generation of transformative end-user experiences for Office and the entire company. The ODSP team has an opportunity for you get in on designing and building a core part of the stack.This position is for an Individual Contributor (IC) Principal Architect on the ODSP Engineering team to develop new service features for a worldwide identity management service. The service is a highly performing, distributed, highly available, and resilient system. The service must scale from a few thousands of very active users to millions of lightly active users so your skills in choosing the right data structures and algorithms will be heavily challenged.
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.
Analyzes, designs, and implements improvements to improve performance and security, reduce Cost of Goods Sold (COGS), and drive those changes across multiple products. Partners with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for one or more complex scenarios.Provides technical leadership for the 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 the company.Leverages deep subject-matter expertise of cross-product features with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to lead multiple product'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.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications:Bachelor'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 PythonOR equivalent experience.7+ years of experience in C# or C/C++, and design, implementation, and debugging skills; knowledge of scripting languages.Experience with distributed systems, performance analysis, databases, and/or large-scale data processing.Experience in storage, high performance data structures, and algorithms, analyzing and improving performance - input/output (I/O), memory, CPU, and concurrency. Preferred Qualifications:
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science OR related technical field AND 12+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, OR PythonOR Master'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 PythonOR equivalent experience.Knowledge of Azure services and systems a plus.Experience with financial analysis a plus.Experience with building cloud-scale infrastructure components.Familiar with secure software design concepts.Track record of delivering projects that include multiple components.Experience collaborating with partner teams to meet the engineering goals in a unified manner and influencing without authority.Ability to prioritize tasks and work independently.Software Engineering IC6 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $161,600 - $286,200 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $209,600 - $314,400 per year.
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay
Microsoft will accept applications for the role until April 18, 2025.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.
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