Principal Software Engineer
Redmond, WA 
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OverviewExperience building large scale distributed systems? Desire to build for planet scale? Ready to lead? The Azure Policy Engine Team is hiring a Principal Software Engineer to redefine and evolve the foundation of Azure Compute. In this role, you'll be responsible for designing and building foundational change management solutions that enable customer workloads of all types (e.g. stateless, stateful, cloud native, lift and shift, AI/ML, etc.) to run reliably on Azure at a scale of millions of servers and billions of changes. As a Principal Software Engineer you will be joining a talented team that invests in our people and technology for the long term. We emphasize comprehensive designs, incremental development with high quality, shipping frequently, and adapting quickly to customer feedback. Join us in pushing the boundaries of scale, availability, efficiency, and data safety. 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.
ResponsibilitiesPartners with appropriate stakeholders spanning across teams and orgs to determine project requirements Leads the design and architecture of change management features and services in Azure ComputeIdentifies dependencies and authors design documents for features and services. Leverages expertise with appropriate stakeholders to develop project plans, release plans, and work items.Develops high quality, extensible, maintenable code and coaches others to do the same.Supports livesite as 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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