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Principal Software Engineer

Microsoft· Software Engineering
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China, Jiangsu, Suzhou, China, Shanghai, Shanghaifull-timePosted 4d ago

About the role

Senior engineering role leading design and delivery of core directory services for Microsoft’s cloud-scale datacenters, focusing on modernization, reliability, and AI-powered monitoring within the Datacenter Config Directory team.

Responsibilities

  • Guides partnership with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project manager, technical lead) to determine user requirements within and across teams.
  • Guides teams and leads identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.
  • Optimizes, debugs, refactors, and reuses code to improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI).
  • Guides team to drive multiple group's project plans, release plans, and work items in coordination with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers).
  • Guides team and acts as an expert for Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and monitors other engineers across product lines, working on call to monitor.

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/PythonSystems design and architectureLeadership and mentoring
Nice to have:DevOps/production operations
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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