Are you looking for an opportunity to build software and systems for one of the largest networks that exist in the world? The Azure Networking team is responsible for designing and building the software defined network infrastructure that powers millions of servers around the globe for Azure, Bing and other Microsoft cloud services, and enables the explosive growth of artificial intelligence (AI). Azure Networking is at the forefront of Hyperscale Cloud Computing and runs one of the largest datacenter and wide area network infrastructures in the world.

Azure Networking team is looking for world-class a Principal Software Engineer to help us in building the highest quality software to manage global networks.

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Responsibilities

• Partners with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a set of scenarios.

• Leads 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 products.

• Leverages subject-matter expertise of cross-product features with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to drive multiple group'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.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• 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++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python

• OR equivalent experience

• 3+ years of experience with requirement analysis, feature design or test plan writing

• 3+ years of experience with designing and implementing large-scale distributed systems

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.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's Degree or Doctorate in Computer Science or related technology field

• Knowledge of UNIX or Linux

• Familiar with test automation tools and scripting languages

• Experience with agile methodology

• Knowledge with the networking areas: Ethernet, Virtual Local Area Networks (VLANs), Internet Protocol (IP) Routing, Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP), Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), Quality of Service (QoS), Traffic Engineering (TE), network congestion management, network management

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-pay

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