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

10 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

Skills

Software Engineering, Coding, Design Documents, System Monitoring, Fault-Tolerant Infrastructure, AI, Large Language Models, Kubernetes, Cloud Native, Container Ecosystem, Open-Source Contribution, Security Principles, Network Protocols, Data Leak Prevention, Intrusion Detection, Deep Packet Inspection

Industry

Software Development

Description

Works with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a set of features. Contributes to the identification of dependencies, and the development of design documents for a product area with little oversight. Creates and implements code for a product, service, or feature, reusing code as applicable. Contributes efforts to break down larger work items into smaller work items and provides estimation. Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) working on-call to monitor system/product feature/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions and gain approval to restore system/product/service for simple problems. Remains current in skills by investing time and effort into staying abreast of current developments that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale. Designing and running large-scale fault-tolerant infrastructure services Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python 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. Proficient understanding of AI, Large language models (LLMs), and Model Context Protocol (MCP) security principles. 1+ years experience with Kubernetes and wider Cloud native / Container ecosystem. Contribution to open-source software projects is a plus. Security: Intrusion Detection Prevention System (IDPS) - Suricata, Snort, Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) - Application ID (AppID), Data Leak Prevention (DLP) , Extended Berkeley Packet Filter (eBPF), Internet Protocol (IP) - tables L7 proxy: Envoy, Nginx, High Availability Proxy (HAproxy) Network protocols: Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP), User Datagram Protocol (UDP), Domain Name System (DNS), Hypertext Transfer Protocol/Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTP/HTTPS), Transport Layer Security (TLS), Secure Socket Layer (SSL) termination, etc.

Responsibilities

The Principal Software Engineer works with stakeholders to determine user requirements and contributes to design documents with minimal oversight. They create and implement code for products and services while monitoring system performance and addressing issues as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI).