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, Performance Optimization, Networking, Distributed Systems, Virtualization, Telemetry Analysis, Network Debugging, Cloud Platforms, AI/Machine Learning, High-Performance Computing, Sonic Network Operating System, gRPC, Linux/Unix Systems

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. 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, Golang, Rust, C++, C#, Java 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, Golang, Rust, C++, C#, Java or Python OR equivalent experience. Networking: Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP), User Datagram Protocol (UDP), Transport Layer Security (TLS), Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), Hypertext Transfer Protocol/Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTP/HTTPS), Virtual Extensible Lan (VXLAN), Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) Distributed Systems Linux/Unix/Windows systems programming, performance optimization Virtualization: hypervisors; Virtual Machine (VM) switching, containers Designing and running large-scale fault-tolerant infrastructure services Large scale telemetry gathering and analysis Network packet capture analysis and debugging Proficient Design & Programming skills Experience in Google Remote Procedure Calls (gRPC), Linux/Unix systems Knowledge of Azure Networking stack or similar cloud platforms: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Experience with workloads involving AI/Machine Learning (ML) inference, Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) clusters, or High-Performance Computing (HPC) systems. Development experience with Sonic Network Operating system.

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).