Microsoft

Principal Software Engineer - CTJ - Poly

Microsoft$142K — $274K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field
  • 6+ years of software engineering experience
  • Proficiency in programming languages such as C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • Active U.S. Government Top Secret Clearance with SCI access
  • U.S. citizenship verification required for legal compliance

Responsibilities

  • Partner with stakeholders to gather user requirements for product scenarios
  • Lead the identification of dependencies and create design documents for various applications
  • Mentor team members to foster the creation of maintainable code
  • Drive project plans and release schedules by leveraging cross-product expertise
  • Act as Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) for product monitoring and mentor engineers
  • Seek out new knowledge to enhance product performance and consistency at scale
  • Promote company culture and values within the team

Benefits

  • Opportunity for professional development and mentorship
  • Work in a collaborative environment focused on critical customer workloads
  • Engagement with innovative cloud technologies and practices
  • Involvement in end-to-end product lifecycle management
  • Ability to contribute to high-impact projects in the Azure cloud ecosystem
Full Job Description
Overview

Come join us as a Principal Software Engineer and support a portfolio of products within the Azure cloud that enable critical workloads for customers. This position involves the complete end-to-end lifecycles of product development and operations.

Responsibilities

  • Partners with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a set of scenarios.
  • Leads identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.
  • Leads by example and mentors others to produce extensible and maintainable code used across products.
  • Leverages subject-matter expertise of cross-product features with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to drive multiple group's project plans, release plans, and work items.
  • Holds 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 seeks 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.
  • Embody our culture and values.


Qualifications

Required/Minimum 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.

Other Requirements:

Security Clearance Requirements: Candidates must be able 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:
  • 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 pre-offer and post-hire 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.
  • Clearance Verification: This position requires successful verification of the stated security
    clearance to meet federal government customer requirements. You will be asked to provide
    clearance verification information prior to an offer of employment.
  • Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud
    background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
  • Citizenship & Citizenship Verification: This position requires verification of U.S. citizenship due
    to citizenship-based legal restrictions. Specifically, this position supports United States federal,
    state, and/or local United States government agency customer and is subject to certain
    citizenship-based restrictions where required or permitted by applicable law. To meet this legal
    requirement, citizenship will be verified via a valid passport, or other approved documents, or
    verified US government Clearance


Preferred/Additional Qualifications:
  • C# and Azure experience. Knowledge of networking a plus.


Software Engineering IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $142,800.00 - $274,800.00 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $188,000.00 - $304,200.00 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

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