Principal Software Engineer - CTJ - Poly

Microsoft • Reston, VA

129d • $139,900 - $274,800

About The Position

Are you passionate about building world-class, fast, scalable, environment support Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and Azure Container Registry (ACR) for Microsoft's sovereign and national customer? Are you looking for an opportunity to enable and have great impact on how developers work on these workflows? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you! With Azure's continued expansion in containerized workloads and growing customer interest to shift security left, the Aigrapped Container Team is looking for software engineers who can build from the ground up across the end-to-end system. As a Principal Software Engineer on our team, you will have the opportunity to work with various Azure technologies to build and maintain massively scalable cloud services. You will help design, build, and validate various components needed to maintain, scale, and make AKS and ACR the best choice for container workloads. The cloud is becoming ever more important to our lives, and malicious actors getting ever more sophisticated. You will be part of an overall vision to secure the workloads running in Azure: from code, to build, to distribution, to runtime - to help Azure be the most secure and most reliable cloud platform.

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.
• Candidates must be able to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements.
• The successful candidate must have an active U.S. Government Top Secret Clearance with access to Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) based on a Single Scope Background Investigation (SSBI) with Polygraph.
• Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role.
• Failure to maintain or obtain the appropriate U.S. Government clearance and/or customer screening requirements may result in employment action up to and including termination.

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.
• 3+ years experience in cloud computing or building large scale backend services.
• 6+ years of experience successfully collaborating with cross functional teams, owning deliverables and driving results to meet business objectives.
• 1+ year(s) of experience with Golang and Linux, contributing to cloud-native development and systems programming.
• 1+ year(s) of experience applying site-reliability engineering (SRE) practices, including monitoring, incident response, and improving system resilience.
• Solid understanding of cloud development principles and patterns, data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems.
• Previous cloud experience.
• Experience with on-call responsibilities, including monitoring, incident response, and improving system resilience.

Responsibilities

• Partnering with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for one or more complex scenarios.
• Providing technical leadership for the identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.
• Leading by example and mentoring others to produce extensible and maintainable code used across the company.
• Leveraging deep subject-matter expertise of cross-product features with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to lead multiple product's project plans, release plans, and work items.
• Holding 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 seeking new knowledge and adapts to new trends, technical solutions, and patterns that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale and shares knowledge with other engineers.

Benefits

• Industry leading healthcare
• Educational resources
• Discounts on products and services
• Savings and investments
• Maternity and paternity leave
• Generous time away
• Giving programs
• Opportunities to network and connect

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Principal
• Industry: Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree