Principal Software Engineer

We are part of the Azure networking team responsible for designing, building, and operating critical network services that will help us differentiate from competitors and generate new revenue.

• Partners with stakeholders to deeply understand user requirements and translate them into scalable technical solutions.
• Drives the design and architecture of complex systems, identifying dependencies and producing high-quality design documents for services and platforms.
• Leads by example and mentors others to produce extensible and maintainable code used across products.
• Acts as the technical lead across multiple teams, influencing project plans, release strategies, and engineering execution through deep cross-domain expertise.
• Serves as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI), owning the reliability and operational excellence of critical services, and mentoring others in on-call best practices.
• 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 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
• 8+ years experience in cloud computing or building large scale backend services.
• 8+ years experience with networking systems and proficiency of protocols at L2 and L3.

• 401k matching
• Health insurance
• Flight privileges
• Discounts on products and services
• Savings and investments
• Maternity and paternity leave
• Generous time away
• Giving programs
• Opportunities to network and connect

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