Principal Software Engineer, Microsoft

Location: Redmond, Washington

Posted: 9/2020

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The Modern Microsoft Cloud is built on three pillars: Compute, Networking, and Storage. The Azure OneDeploy team is in Azure Compute. We stage and orchestrate deployments and repairs on a global scale, across millions of virtual machines with safety, efficiency, and high availability for customers. Our features and infrastructure are used by third party Microsoft customers, first party Microsoft services (e.g. SQL Azure, HDInsight, Cosmos and IndexServe), and core infrastructure in all three cloud pillars. Our work is key to accelerating innovation in the Cloud and provides a multiplier effect for the entire company by delivering smart infrastructure for everyone to use.

We are seeking an experienced Principal Software Engineer to join us in the Azure Compute OneDeploy team. We offer you a talented team and culture that invests in new technologies and in our people for the long term. While we design as a platform, we ship constantly in an incremental fashion. Emphasis is on solid, long-term design, incremental development with high quality, and adapting to early customer feedback.

Responsibilities

This position is for an experienced Principal Software Engineer in OneDeploy focusing on one or more of the following responsibilities:

• Change management at all layers (infra/customer, public/private) in a coherent way from standpoint of safety, staging and impact.

• Orchestrate change management (code, data, config) with changes in dependencies, repairs, scale/up down and other activities at all layers of the virtualization stack.

• Collect and reason about health of targets across the Azure Stack.

• Deliver great change management velocity.

• Orchestrate change in coordination with customer preferences.

• Deliver customer features for managing deployments on Azure such that Azure is the easiest and safest places to run cloud first services as well as traditional enterprise IT.

• Enable experimentation, flighting and testing in production.

• Build solutions that enable customers to focus on business layer and automate/simplify provisioning and deployment on Azure.

• Work with open source technologies and with internal Microsoft teams and products to ship solutions

• This position requires expertise in distributed system design, development of large-scale services, and service analytics. Those proficient in these areas will find themselves applying their knowledge, validating their work in the fast-growing Azure cloud platform, and enjoying a great sense of accomplishment.

Requirements and skills

Basic Qualifications:

• 10+ years of software development experience

• Proficiency in object oriented programming, preferably C/C++

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field, OR equivalent industry experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with Linux is a big plus

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.