Microsoft's Substrate is a massively scaled service that forms the backbone of M365 offerings. Our services empower businesses, educational institutions, governments, and individuals worldwide, representing more than a billion users.

We are on an ambitious journey to reimagine the way we understand, processing, store service data in the era of artificial intelligence. We are building Substrate Common Data Platform (CDP) within Observability Intelligent Cloud group, Redmond, Washington location (part of Substrate Foundation Organization), empowering artificial intelligence, monitoring, alerting and other scenarios by enabling data producers to efficiently produce data and data consumers to easily discover and access the data, with low cost and full data governance across E2E data life cycle using LLM.

We are seeking an innovative Principal Software Engineer with a passion for technology. In this role, you will contribute to developing, designing, and operating large-scale data systems that make up our next-generation platform. As a part of our team, your work will have a direct impact on one of the world's most significant platforms.

As a Principal Software Engineer, you will be working on the following areas:

• Build data platform infrastructure including framework, pipeline using artificial intelligence.

• Build scalable, high-performance software services over large datasets with low latency and high availability.

• Ensure the platform adheres to Microsoft’s strict data privacy and compliance standards.

At Microsoft, we value diversity and ensure all voices are heard. A healthy work-life balance is essential to us, and we're a team that works hard but also knows how to have fun. If you're excited by the opportunity to contribute to transformative technological advances and make an impact on a global scale, this could be the role for you!

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.

In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.

Responsibilities

As a Principal Software Engineer on the Team, you will be entrusted with responsibilities that are critical to the successful development and evolution of our technology platform. Your responsibilities will include:

• Design, development and maintenance of software solutions to handle complex data processing scenarios, not only meet current functional and non-functional requirements, also scalable and can adapt to future needs.

• Collaborate with engineers from within or outside the team, to ensure the successful integration of individual components into the larger system.

• Actively participating in architectural discussions and decisions, playing critical role in selecting technologies, designing scalable and sustainable solutions, and planning for future growth.

• Mentor and develop new engineers to take on new initiatives and challenges.

• Taking part in code reviews, both as a reviewer and a reviewee, to ensure the quality of the software and promote best practices within the team.

• Become subject matter expert in the owned areas.

• Embody our Culture (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/about/corporate-values) and Values (https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/culture)

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience, prefer with coding in C#, Java, Python

• OR equivalent experience.

Other Requirements:

Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements is 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 10+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript,

• 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, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python

• OR equivalent experience.

• 4+ years of professional experience in architecting, designing, and developing data platforms.

• Proven experience in designing, building, and maintaining large-scale data systems.

• Problem-solving skills, with the ability to think quickly and thoroughly.

• Demonstrated ability to lead small to large-sized projects.

Software Engineering IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $133,600 - $256,800 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 $173,200 - $282,200 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until May 16, 2024.

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