Principal Software Architect

Microsoft

12h

About The Position

Azure Resource Graph’s (ARG part of ARM/Azure Control plane) mission is to Reliably organize the planet-scale cloud inventory and making it accessible to every Azure customer through scalable, and performant tools.

ARG is the Inventory of cloud resources, dependencies, services, apps & Azure metadata and is a core service enabling almost all Azure experiences and workloads that are running on top of Azure. Azure Portal, Azure Market Place, Search, Catalog at-scale experiences scenarios for every single Azure customer are powered by ARG. It provides a single pane of glass to query cloud resources via a set of flexible standards with rich scalable, efficient constructs. These standards and toolsets are used by large customers and first party teams alike. ARG’s vision is to enable any customer (large to small) to organize, govern, secure, manage and explore their environments at-scale. Anything we design, develop, or deliver aligns with this vision. As of today, we return close to 6.5+ billion cloud resources per day through these standards to our customers and independent software vendors. As a Principal Software Architect, this position is one of the core engineering functions and sits right in the center of the platform enabling various other connected engineering functions. As a Principal Software Architect, you will work across the organization to bring standards and system efficiencies in the in the platform. You will closely partner with other Senior and Principal Software Engineers to realize the vision of the Product roadmap and you will lead by example with quick prototypes and framework implementations to influence the entire IC Engineer community.
We are building a unique set of capabilities to shorten that cycle and increase Azure adoption. You will be immersed in many exciting, cutting-edge technologies with immense opportunity for growth and immediate business impact. If you are passionate about building scalable distributed platforms, advancing the LLM/agentic space, and driving the next wave of intelligent cloud management, this is your opportunity to shape the future. Come help us take Azure Resource Graph to the next level!
Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Requirements

• 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.
• Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Nice To Haves

• Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 12+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.
• 8+ years deep hands-on working knowledge of building a true cloud-scale services.
• 10+ year experience in one of the object-oriented programming languages including runtime internals like C#, Java, etc.
• 5+ years operational experience in running your service in one of the large-scale clouds like Azure, AWS, GCP.
• 5+ years of exposure to the internals of databases, stores. This is an optional qualification.
• You exercise the power of principles when it comes to choices or decisions with practical knowledge of applying these principles. These are applicable for Code as well as Design.
• 5+ years of hands-on working knowledge of building true cloud-scale services.
• 2+ years of exposure to the internals of databases, stores.
• 4+ years of exposure to the internals of Big Data Systems like Spark, Kubernetes, Structured Streaming etc.
• 1+ year of exposure with LLMs/RAG/Agentic.

Responsibilities

• You are responsible for the technical design and vision for building the necessary underlying systems to enable high throughput query-ability or high throughput ingestion-services in the platform with ambitious performance goals.
• Design scalable architectures for distributed systems that integrate machine learning and intelligent agents.
• Partner across Azure to build platform capabilities that accelerate AI adoption and unlock new customer experiences.
• Define and lead the strategy for ARG’s evolution into big data and LLM/agentic services.
• Guide engineering teams in building high-performance, future-ready services with immediate customer and business impact.
• Achieving quality results with laser customer focus.
• Build distributed micro-services in the area of proprietary columnar databases, replication, batching, agentic, indexing, change tracking, insights, and in defining graph models.
• Focus on end-to-end services, development, and deployment.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level