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Principal Software Engineer

Microsoft

$139,900 - $304,200
Sep 4, 2025
Redmond, WA, USA
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Microsoft is looking to improve the performance and security of OneDrive and SharePoint (ODSP) services, which are critical to the company's future, by designing and building a core part of the stack that can scale to support millions of users with billions of files.

Requirements

  • Proficiency in C or C/C++, and strong design, implementation, and debugging skills; knowledge of scripting languages a plus
  • Experience with distributed systems, performance analysis, databases, and/or large-scale data processing
  • Knowledge of Azure services and systems a plus
  • Experience with financial analysis a plus
  • Experience with building cloud-scale infrastructure components
  • Awareness, passion, and experience related to cloud scale distributed design and patterns
  • Familiar with secure software design concepts

Responsibilities

  • Analyze, design, and implement improvements to improve performance and security, reduce Cost of Goods Sold (COGS), and drive those changes across multiple products
  • Develop and maintain services that power the next generation of experiences for ODSP
  • 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
  • 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

Other

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience
  • Ability to prioritize tasks and work independently
  • Solid communication skills (both written and oral)
  • Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements
  • Ability to collaborate with partner teams to meet the engineering goals in a unified manner