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FULL_TIME
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Principal Software Engineer - Azure Core

11/26/2025

The Principal Software Engineer partners with stakeholders to determine user requirements and provides technical leadership for design documents. They mentor engineers and monitor systems for performance and reliability.

Working Hours

40 hours/week

Company Size

10,001+ employees

Language

English

Visa Sponsorship

No

About The Company
Every company has a mission. What's ours? To empower every person and every organization to achieve more. We believe technology can and should be a force for good and that meaningful innovation contributes to a brighter world in the future and today. Our culture doesn’t just encourage curiosity; it embraces it. Each day we make progress together by showing up as our authentic selves. We show up with a learn-it-all mentality. We show up cheering on others, knowing their success doesn't diminish our own. We show up every day open to learning our own biases, changing our behavior, and inviting in differences. Because impact matters. Microsoft operates in 190 countries and is made up of approximately 228,000 passionate employees worldwide.
About the Role
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. 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, Go, Rust, Bash, or Python 5+ year(s) experience building and managing data centers. Bootstrapping and managing data center (DC) infrastructure, including device inventory, diagnosis, and repairs. Networking and security expertise in high-performance computing, Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) over InfiniBand or RDMA over RoCE and eBPF. Driver and firmware lifecycle management, including GPU diagnostics. Storage and acceleration technologies for AI workloads, including distributed storage systems for multi-exabyte AI workloads and high-throughput data pipelines.
Key Skills
Technical LeadershipMentoringCodingData Center ManagementNetworkingSecurityHigh-Performance ComputingDriver ManagementFirmware ManagementGPU DiagnosticsStorage TechnologiesAI WorkloadsDistributed Storage SystemsData PipelinesObservabilityPerformance Improvement
Categories
TechnologyEngineeringSoftware
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