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Principal Software Engineer

Microsoft· Software Engineering
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Redmond, WA, St. Louis, MO$142.8k - $274.8kFull-timePosted 3w ago

About the role

Azure Local AKS team member responsible for designing and delivering software that provisions, upgrades, and manages AKS clusters on Azure Local, with a focus on networking, virtualization, and cluster lifecycle management. Role includes architectural ownership, mentoring, and ensuring reliability at scale in a hybrid work arrangement.

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 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 and patterns to improve availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance, while 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 - OR equivalent experience.

Skills

Required:Programming in C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or PythonDesign and architectureMentoring and leadership

Benefits

  • This field not explicitly enumerated in the description; see official benefits page for details.
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