Principal Software Engineer - Azure Resource Graph

Azure Resource Graph (ARG) is an index/inventory/catalog of cloud resources and is a core service enabling @scale experiences like Azure Portal, Azure Search, Azure Catalog. It provides a single pane of glass to query resources via a rich query language. Large customers and first-party teams alike use these APIs and toolsets. ARG's vision is to enable any customer (large to small) to organize, govern, secure, manage and explore their Azure environments at scale. So naturally, scale and performance are our team's DNA. Anything we design, develop, or deliver aligns with this vision.

Our environment is fast-paced and highly innovative. As a team member, you will have the opportunity to work with top-notch engineers and domain experts to help develop Azure-wide Control plane solutions. You will immerse yourself in many exciting, cutting-edge technologies with immense opportunities for growth and immediate business impact. Our team innovates quickly and works closely with partners and customers in an agile, high-energy environment. It's an opportunity to collaborate with diverse engineering teams to enable end-to-end auditing, change insights and diagnosability scenarios using cutting-edge technologies, and solve prominent problems for large enterprise customers. If this sounds exciting to you, please come and talk to us!

As a Principal Software Engineer - Azure Resource Graph on the Azure Core team, you will be partnering closely with other engineers and partners to design and build features in control plane notification pipeline. As a Principal Software Engineer, you will work on designing, coding, validating, shipping, and running high scale services. You will have the opportunity to use your technical experience to shape the product and its customer experience. We are looking for distributed systems and API (Application Programming Interface) proficiency with a passion for user-facing features and experience working on always available, mission critical systems. You will be responsible for building mission critical, large scale distributed systems handling billions of resources per day.

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.

• 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# or Java
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of experiences with deep hands-on working knowledge of building true cloud-scale services.
  
• 4+ year of experiences in one of the object-oriented programming languages including runtime internals like C++, C#, Java, etc.

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.  

• 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#, or Java
  • 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# or Java
  • OR equivalent experience.
    

Software Engineering IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $137,600 - $267,000 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 $180,400 - $294,000 per year.

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Microsoft will accept applications for the role until January 8, 2025.

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• Providing technical leadership, raising the technical bar, maintain data and results-driven culture, nurture a team culture of high collaboration and trust.
• Collaborate across Azure to develop platforms that help deliver insights and automation to simplify the complex world of managing planetary scale.
• Create clarity and direction in ambiguous problem spaces.
• Write exemplary code working with large scale distributed systems with quality, simplicity, and maintainability as core tenets.
• Mentor and develop engineers across all levels through sharing and learning.
• Be a role model for open, honest, and inclusive approach to problem solving.