Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft

, , United States -

Full Time

Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

19 Feb, 26

Salary

0.0

Posted On

21 Nov, 25

Experience

5 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

Skills

C, C++, Data Structures, Algorithms, Testing, Debugging, Analytical Skills, Planning, Scheduling, Multi-threaded Programming, Communication, Collaboration, Distributed Systems, Cloud Backend Development, Performance, Reliability

Industry

Software Development

Description

- Partners with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a set of scenarios. - Leads 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 products. - Leverages subject-matter expertise of cross-product features with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to drive multiple group'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. Required Qualifications: - Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in C and C++ languages. - 3+ year(s) experience with data structures and algorithms, including testing, debugging, and analytical skills. - 3+ year(s) of experience in planning, scheduling, and delivering quality software solutions. - 3+ years experience with multi-threaded programming, along with effective communication and collaboration skills . Preferred Qualifications: - Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science - OR related technical field AND 10+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, OR Python - OR Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python - OR equivalent experience. - 1+ year(s) experience in designing and building large-scale distributed systems. - 1+ year(s) experience in cloud backend development and operations, including performance, reliability, resiliency, and scale-out. Software Engineering IC5 - Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.

Responsibilities

The Principal Software Engineer partners with stakeholders to determine user requirements and leads the development of design documents. They mentor engineers, ensure code quality, and monitor system performance.