Principal Software Engineer

Are you interested in high performance hardware, virtualization infrastructure, and hyperscale computing? The Azure Compute team is looking for a strong senior technical leader to accelerate the introduction of new and innovative hardware/software IO acceleration platforms in our cloud.

Microsoft Azure is building the fastest and most reliable network and storage platform in the public cloud. We are seeking candidates who love working on high performance systems, taking their ideas from design to code to full scale production systems. Join us as a Principal Software Engineer to help build the world’s fastest public cloud that will be used by millions of customers around the world.

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.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND 8+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, or Rust
  • OR equivalent experience.

Other Qualifications:

• 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:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 12+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, or Rust
  • OR Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 10+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, or Rust
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 6+ years people management experience.
• Knowledge of
  • Windows and/or Linux OS networking and storage stacks;
  • AND Windows and/or Linux hypervisors and network/storage virtualization subsystems.
• Experience in the following:
  • performance optimization of systems software;
  • hardware-software codesign projects;
  • driving quality and reliability for large-scale deployed systems.
• Familiarity with datacenter-class networking and storage acceleration hardware.
• Demonstrated ability to work with internal and external partners on hardware and software.

Software Engineering IC6 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $161,600 - $286,200 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $209,600 - $314,400 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until January 13, 2025. 

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• Partners with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for one or more complex scenarios.
• Provides technical leadership for the 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 the company.
• Leverages deep subject-matter expertise of cross-product features with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to lead multiple product'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.

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