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Principal Software Engineer

Microsoft· Software Engineering
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Hybrid (Multiple Locations)$142.8k - $274.8kFull-timePosted 1w ago

About the role

The health and reliability of one of the world’s largest cloud networks starts with data. The team builds high-scale data platforms and engineering systems that transform network telemetry and operational signals into trusted, actionable intelligence for Microsoft Azure. The role provides technical leadership for architecture and evolution of large-scale distributed data platforms ingesting, processing, enriching, storing, and publishing network telemetry and operational data, partnering across Azure Networking and Microsoft to enable scalable, reliable, and high-quality systems.

Responsibilities

  • Provide technical leadership and define the architectural direction for highly scalable, reliable distributed data platforms that ingest, process, enrich, store, and publish network telemetry and operational data.
  • Lead the design and evolution of cloud-scale streaming and batch data systems, solving highly complex and ambiguous engineering problems across scalability, availability, performance, resiliency, data quality, and operational efficiency.
  • Drive long-term technical strategy across multiple teams, identifying opportunities for product-level impact and establishing reusable architectures, engineering patterns, and platform capabilities that enable consistent solutions at scale.
  • Partner across Microsoft Azure Networking and the broader Microsoft Azure organization to lead architectural and design reviews, align technical investments, manage cross-system dependencies, and deliver cohesive solutions across organizational boundaries.
  • Own critical capabilities end to end, from architecture and design through implementation, production readiness, operation, and continuous improvement, ensuring systems meet high standards for security, reliability, maintainability, and engineering quality.
  • Serve as a technical authority for engineering excellence, proactively identifying systemic technical risks and driving improvements in design, code quality, testing, observability, performance, reliability, and operational practices.
  • Mentor and influence engineers and technical leaders, developing engineering capability across teams while fostering sound technical decision-making, collaboration, accountability, and a culture of continuous learning.

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, Python, Go, or Rust OR equivalent experience.

Skills

Required:Architectural leadershipDistributed systemsData platforms (streaming and batch)

Benefits

  • Benefits and other compensation may be available; see pay information link in job description.
Last updated Oct 16, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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