Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft

Job Overview

Microsoft is seeking a highly skilled Principal Software Engineer to join our Cloud Operations + Innovation (CO+I) team. This role is crucial for architecting, designing, and building the next generation of connected systems and tools to support critical business functions such as Supply Chain, Cost, Schedule, Networking, Commissioning, Safety, and Planning in a real-time manner.

Responsibilities

• Write high-quality, maintainable, reusable code following SOLID principles with test automation.
• Collaborate with stakeholders and demonstrate features developed in an Agile environment.
• Resolve complex system integration challenges working across team boundaries.
• Share learnings and code assets developed with the CO+I engineering team.
• Leverage subject-matter expertise of product features and partners with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to drive a workgroup's project plans, release plans, and work items.
• Act as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and guides other engineers by developing and following the playbook, working on call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions, alerting stakeholders about status and initiates actions to restore system/product/service for simple and complex problems when appropriate.
• Proactively seek 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.

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.
• 6+ years of experience in migration, modernization, automation and integration tradeoffs involved in working with enmeshed software systems.
• 6+ years of experience with network digitization, automation and integration system with modern cloud-based architecture.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience.
• Experience working through the full product cycle from initial design to rapid production deployment.
• Experience working in construction/capital projects and integration of supply chain activities into Engineering, Procurement and Construction.
• Hands-on experience with Hadoop HDFS, MongoDB or CosmosDB.
• Experience with multiple Java enterprise frameworks.
• Experience in building testable, distributed and highly scalable online services on Azure or similar cloud platform.
• Experience with Open-Source Software development.

This role is located either in one or all hub locations - Atlanta, GA, Washington, D.C., Redmond, WA, San Antonio, TX or Phoenix, AZ. Relocation support will be provided, and successful candidates must relocate or reside within 50 miles of the hub office location. This role is eligible for hybrid or remote work, up to 100%.