Principal Software Engineer - Microsoft

Are you interested in working for one of the most exciting and fastest growing teams at Microsoft?   The Modern Protection & SOC’s Platform Engineering team is responsible for building the cloud solutions that meet the scales not often seen in the industry, enabling holist production to a user base of billions of users and 10s of thousands of State level organizations, enterprises, and business around the globe. 

The Platform Engineer team provides leadership, direction, and accountability for application architecture, design, infrastructure development and end-to-end implementation.   You will independently determine and develop architectural approaches and infrastructure solutions.   Strong collaboration skills will be required as you will be working with a global team comprised of software engineers, site reliability engineers, researchers to design and deliver highly stable and performant services that meet the expectations of internal and external users.

We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer to help us design, architect and build large scale platforms, cloud service infrastructure and engineering systems.   The cutting edge services and infrastructure you build will need to be able to process and handle enterprise and consumer services.   You will work in collaboration with other Engineers, Researchers, Data Scientists and Architects to continue to learn and build your skill sets on how to innovate the design approach of said pipelines and services.

Required Qualifications:

• 10+ years of development experience in Enterprise environments.
• 5+ years of Linux hands on system experiences.
• Technical leadership in web architectures and distributed systems.
• Ability to take a service from concept through its full life cycle (concept, design, delivery, operations)
• Proven Coding experience using C# or Java or high-level languages.
• Expertise in the “inner development loop” including test and integration methodology.  
• Mastery of CI\CD, and safe deployment concepts with hands on implementation experiences
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Ability to deal with ambiguity associated with working in a fast-paced and dynamic environment by providing clarity
• Leadership skills: Including judgement, resolution, negotiating and decision-making skills.
• Ability to technically mentor Junior/Mid-Career engineers.
• Familiarity with the instrumenting service metrics, monitoring and defining SLI/SLOs for services.
• Formal experience with incident detection, mitigation and resolution workflows associated with production services.
• Support a 24x7 live site support model for service ownership.  

Preferred Experiences and Technologies:

• Kubernetes, and the Kubernetes satellite technologies
• Spark, Data Lake, or hands on big data platform pipeline development (Ex. Azure Data Factory, Data Explorer/Kusto, Data Bricks, Spark)
• Azure DevOps and GitHub tooling
• Data mining or data science experiences utilizing Big Data and\or relational data bases technologies
• Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate in a multi-disciplinary team consisting of Software Engineers, Program Managers, Security researchers, and Data Scientists
• Development experience with cloud platforms such as Microsoft Azure

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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.

If you are highly motivated, self-starter who thrives in a bottoms-up, fast paced, highly technical environment you have a strong customer focus and understand the importance of Live Site Demonstrated ability to establish and manage relationships across organizational boundaries. Proven experience dealing with large scale data architecture, operational architecture and or network Architecture Proven experience creating distributed systems tools of moderate to high complexity.

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. 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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