Principal Software Engineer Azure DevOps

at  Microsoft

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.
Why Azure DevOps?
Working in Azure DevOps team means being part of a dynamic and innovative environment that offers a variety of opportunities to learn, grow, and collaborate. You will be able to contribute to the security and safety of Azure DevOps that helps Microsoft earn the trust of customers around the globe. We recognize people will only use technology they trust and we strive to demonstrate our commitment to building trust by providing visibility into the security of our products and services. We are diverse and talented team of engineers, product managers, designers, and customers, who share a passion for delivering high-quality software and services.

WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR?

We’re looking for experienced backend and full-stack software engineer to join a Azure DevOps team. This team is focused on scalability, service health, and infrastructure investments necessary to make Azure DevOps a great experience for our growing customer base. We also deliver features that allow our customers to administer their organizations and maintain a secure and compliant software supply chain. Finally, we invest in our own developer experience, increasing the velocity of our own teams and reducing costs to support and run our services at scale.
In this role, you will have the opportunity to work as a full stack engineer with a globally distributed, diverse and a passionate team. You’ll work with a variety Azure technologies and partners and be challenged to solve interesting problems unique to running services at very large scale. You will be responsible for all aspects of the services and areas you own, from design, development, and quality, to deployment, reliability, observability, and performance in production.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience in software development lifecycle, large scale computing, modeling, cyber security, anomaly detection
• OR Bachelor’s Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Risk Management, Cyber Security, or related field
• OR equivalent experience.
• Strong object-oriented design skills gained from at least 4 years of working with OOP languages and patterns.
• Solid understanding of testing principles and high-quality software.

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

• Extensive technical experience with complex technology projects within large, distributed organizations
• Excellent technical design and problem solving skills.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
  Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations

• As a technical leader on the team, you will evaluate and recommend solutions, and guide team decision making
• Mentor, pair, participate in code reviews, and delegate work to encourage the professional and technical growth of those around you
• Write, test, instrument, and maintain code primarily in C#, SQL, ASP.Net, HTML5, React, Typescript, PowerShell, and Azure
• Coordinate with engineering and product leadership to define and prioritize projects that help us meet business objectives
• Analyze how your features are performing in production to learn and make the product better
• Document the systems you help build
• Be a role model lead by example, share diversity values, attract the best talent
• Enable your team to build distributed, highly available and resilient systems.
• Work with support to triage and debug technical support requests escalated to the product team.
• Support a highly available service used by millions of users on a daily basis.