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Principal Software Engineer

Microsoft

$139,900 - $304,200
Oct 9, 2025
Remote, US
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Microsoft is looking to solve complex challenges in distributed systems, including failure detection, leader election, and replicated state machines, by designing and delivering innovative, cloud-scale distributed systems using Azure Service Fabric.

Requirements

  • 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C-Sharp, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • 3+years of experience in designing and developing large-scale, distributed cloud services with focus on reliability, scalability, and performance.
  • Experience with Azure Service Fabric
  • Experience with cloud-scale distributed systems
  • Experience with designing and developing software that supports fault tolerance, self-management, and scalable operations
  • Experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C-Sharp, Java, JavaScript, or Python

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 mentor 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.

Other

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field
  • Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements
  • Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
  • Travel requirements not specified
  • Clearance requirements not specified