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Principal Software Engineer - Hardware

Microsoft· Software Engineering
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United States$142.8k - $274.8kfull-timePosted 4d ago

About the role

Leader for architecture and evolution of large-scale distributed data platforms handling network telemetry and operational data for Azure Networking. Defines strategy, patterns, and platform capabilities; mentors engineers and drives cross-team architectural decisions to scale and improve reliability, performance, and data quality.

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, JavaScript, or Python - OR equivalent experience.

Skills

Required:Distributed data platformsArchitectural leadershipCross-team collaboration
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