Microsoft Principal Software Engineer

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Posted date: Nov 06, 2024

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Category: Software Engineering

Location: Redmond, WA

Estimated salary: $215,800
Range: $137,600 - $294,000

Employment type: Full-Time

Travel amount: 25.0%

Work location type: Up to 50% work from home

Role: Individual Contributor


Description

Microsoft Silicon, Cloud Hardware, and Infrastructure Engineering (SCHIE) is the team behind Microsoft’s expanding Cloud Infrastructure and responsible for powering Microsoft’s “Intelligent Cloud” mission. SCHIE delivers the core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft's over 200 online businesses including Bing, MSN, Office 365, Xbox Live, Teams, OneDrive, and the Microsoft Azure platform globally with our server and data center infrastructure, security and compliance, operations, globalization, and manageability solutions. Our focus is on smart growth, high efficiency, and delivering a trusted experience to customers and partners worldwide and we are looking for engineers to help achieve that mission.

To achieve this goal, we in the Hardware Health Service team within Azure are responsible for the design, implementation, and operation of a global scalable cloud services to monitor the fleet’s hardware health and predict anomalies and pending failures. We focus on delivering solutions required for our cloud service platforms at the lowest possible cost of ownership (TCO) and providing great customer experiences on unreliable hardware.

Azure Hardware Health Service is looking for a Principal Software Engineer to be a part of the fast pace and exciting business of Azure. This is your chance to be part of the most exciting end to end teams within Microsoft. We are looking for a highly motivated Principal Software Engineer with a track record in Cloud Service development to come help us develop and light up innovative hardware solutions that powers Azure and make our world-class cloud infrastructure even better. To be successful in this role, you have a great track record of delivering quality results to customers, an engineering mindset, an innate aptitude for agility, and technical excellence in software engineering.

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.

Design, develop and operate large scale, low latency, and high throughput cloud services. Lead and drive highly complex and mission critical solutions that involve multiple Azure Services. Provide overarching technical leadership and direction to a team of big data focused developers to deliver global scale services to collect signals and monitor the fleet’s hardware health and predict anomalies and pending failures. Being an active leader in Azure infrastructure eco-system, work closely with the core Azure teams and the data center operations teams to ensure customers are not impacted by unreliable hardware. Take an active role and partner with internal peer teams and external partners to ensure highly available, fully secure, accurate and actionable results based on hardware health signals, policies, and predictive analytics. 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.

5+ years of hands-on experience on leading architecture for large scale system, designing and coding on mission critical scalable distributed systems and running live site. 6+ years’ experience of shipping cloud services and having been through at least one development cycle.

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:

Development of core fundamental global scale data pipeline services. Understanding of hardware and devices, or familiarity with OS and Firmware health and error reporting. High tolerance to ambiguity and ability make progress when situations are in flux. Passion for customers and confidence to ship reliable software that customers loves. Solid data engineering and analysis experience. Experience working in collaborative teams and cross-group efforts. Proven ability to plan, schedule and deliver high quality software.

Software Engineering IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $137,600 - $267,000 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 $180,400 - $294,000 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: US corporate pay information | Microsoft Careers

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until November 11, 2024.

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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