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Posted date: Aug 16, 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
Are you a customer-obsessed, AI-curious problem-solver who thrives in an inclusive, collaborative global team? The Azure Customer Experience (CXP) team’s mission is to transform Microsoft Cloud customers into fans. Through our deep engineering engagements with customers and teams across Microsoft, we analyze and amplify customer needs and drive the vision to improve Cloud quality, security, and reliability. Our culture of growth mindset and empowerment are central to who we are and how we work.The mission of the Azure Customer Experience (CXP) team is to transform Azure customers into Azure fans. We are customer-obsessed problem-solvers charged with driving a vision to maximize quality, reliability, and security of the Microsoft Cloud and, in turn, to optimize customer experiences (CXP). We orchestrate deep engineering engagements in areas like incident management, support, and workload deployment and stabilization. We analyze and amplify customer voices within our own team and across product teams, centering customer needs in our Quality vision for Azure. We innovate ways to scale customer care through in-product experiences and platforms. Our culture of growth mindset and inclusion is central to who we are and how we work. We know that empowering our customers starts with empowering every team member to do their best work.
Every minute of every day, our customers stake their entire business and reputation on the Microsoft Cloud. When we achieve our world-class standards of quality, security, reliability, and support, our customers win. You can help us achieve our mission.
We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer with a passion for delivering well-designed, scalable, and reliable software for large-scale projects. As part of this role, you will collaborate closely with multiple teams across Microsoft to deliver key customer solutions and the technology to support them.
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.
As a Principal Software Engineer, you will help develop a world-class customer-centered engineering infrastructure. We are in a unique position to empower all of Azure to make precise data driven decisions with the data our services manage. You will work with Azure to optimize customer experiences (CXP) Program Managers, Data Scientists, other Azure engineering teams as well as the Field and Support organizations to define and deliver critical microservices and automation required for all the rapidly expanding programs in Azure to optimize customer experiences (CXP).
This role provides an exciting opportunity to work with team members across all levels of Azure’s cloud technology stack. Some responsibilities include:
Design, architect and develop high quality, robust, highly scalable, reliable, and secure products and services that deliver immediate customer business value and can evolve to meet future business needs.
Provide technical leadership across service fundamentals including reliability, scalability, maintainability, validation, monitoring, telemetry and performance.
Oversees, influences, and owns design discussions for the overall system architecture of entire products/solutions that are deeply complex and often ambiguous.
Create proposals for architecture and design documents and lead testing of hypotheses and proposed solutions. Shares and acts on findings from investigations, owns design decisions, and oversees team members
Leads by example and mentors others to produce extensible and maintainable code used across the company.
Leads efforts to optimize, debug, refactor, and reuse code to improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI).
Identify best practices and coding patterns and provides deep expertise in the coding and validation strategy. Creates and applies metrics to drive the quality and stability of code, as well as appropriate coding patterns and best practices.
Provides technical leadership during code reviews for a solution/product area to assure it meets quality standards, is reliable and accurate, and is appropriate for the scale of the product feature.
Ensures coding standards are followed.
Collaborate with partner teams to drive technological integration and product adoption.
Other
Embody our Culture and Values
Qualifications
Required/Minimum QualificationsBachelor'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 PythonOR equivalent experience.5+ years of software engineering experience, preferably in cloud services or distributed systems.5+ years of experience in architecting and designing complex software systems or services.
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.Additional Or preferred Qualifications
8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python10+ years of industry software engineering experience, including delivering highly available cloud-based services.3+ years of experience in large scale distributed systems and cloud technology stack such as Azure or AWSProficient architectural and technical system design skills and experience. Proficiency in computer science concepts including data structures, algorithms, and software design patterns. Proficient communication, collaboration, and negotiation skills with demonstrated ability to develop key partnerships across teams and organizations.Leads by example and mentors’ others to produce extensible and maintainable code.Experience with implementing large-scale distributed software services, modern DevOps practices (including Git, CI/CD, Azure DevOps) and cloud-based delivery models.Leadership skills, with the ability to effectively drive a team of software engineers.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: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay
Microsoft will accept applications for the role until August 21, 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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