JOB DETAILS
Principal Software Engineer
CompanyMicrosoft
LocationPinkenba
Work ModeOn Site
PostedNovember 25, 2025
About The Company
Every company has a mission. What's ours? To empower every person and every organization to achieve more. We believe technology can and should be a force for good and that meaningful innovation contributes to a brighter world in the future and today. Our culture doesn’t just encourage curiosity; it embraces it. Each day we make progress together by showing up as our authentic selves. We show up with a learn-it-all mentality. We show up cheering on others, knowing their success doesn't diminish our own. We show up every day open to learning our own biases, changing our behavior, and inviting in differences. Because impact matters.
Microsoft operates in 190 countries and is made up of approximately 228,000 passionate employees worldwide.
About the Role
- 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. - 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 These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: - Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science - OR related technical field AND 10+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, - OR Python - OR 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 - 5+ years of proficiency in C/C++/C# object-oriented programming - 5+ years of expert knowledge on Cloud Scale storage or Distributed systems. M #azurecorejobs This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled. *
Key Skills
Software EngineeringMentoringCloud Scale StorageDistributed SystemsCC++C#JavaJavaScriptPythonObject-Oriented ProgrammingDesign DocumentsSystem MonitoringTechnical SolutionsProject ManagementReliability
Categories
TechnologySoftwareEngineering
Job Information
📋Core Responsibilities
The Principal Software Engineer partners with stakeholders to determine user requirements and leads the development of design documents. They mentor engineers and are accountable for monitoring system performance and reliability.
📋Job Type
full time
📊Experience Level
10+
💼Company Size
226356
📊Visa Sponsorship
No
💼Language
English
🏢Working Hours
40 hours
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