Are you interested in working for one of the most exciting efforts to advance Microsoft’s mission to bring AI to every single person on the planet? The Azure AI Platform team is at the center of Microsoft’s AI revolution as the world moves towards integrating Artificial Intelligence, such as Large Language Models (LLMs), into services and applications that impact millions of people in their day-to-day lives. Inside the AI Platform air-gapped team, you will have the opportunity to deliver transformational AI capabilities to Microsoft’s air-gapped clouds for use in critical customer missions. From Azure Machine Learning (https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/machine-learning/) to Azure AI Services (https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/ai-services/) to Azure OpenAI (https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/ai-services/openai-service) and everything in between, we are at the forefront of delivering critical AI capabilities to every person and organization on the planet to achieve more.

Our team is looking for a skilled Principal Software Engineer who is enthusiastic about creating scalable, distributed, highly-available, and secure cloud services on the Microsoft AI Platform. We are developing solutions aimed at data scientists, IT administrators, and developers to enhance the experience of their customers with advanced AI capabilities.

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Responsibilities

As a Principal Software Engineer on our team, you will participate in developing innovative solutions across AI Platform.

• Write concise and clean code with unit tests

• Design and build scalable, high-performance services that are highly reliable

• Ability to work across teams in a large organization

• Design and implement new features as well as add functionality to existing systems

• Investigate pre-production and production issues, implement and deploy fixes

• Participate in an on-call rotation (typically 24/7 for one week every 6-8 weeks)

• Develop and use automation to deploy and manage complex cloud services across multiple Azure cloud instances and regions

• Define and develop standardized, repeatable, scalable solutions to guarantee quality

• Drive initiatives to gather and examine data across various metrics (e.g., system health) to enhance product development for new features, improved reliability, or guide decisions in engineering products.

• Be enthusiastic, self-motivated, and a great collaborator

• Be passionate about making customers successful

• Embody out culture (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/culture) and values (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/about/corporate-values)

Qualifications

Required

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline 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.

• 5+ years of experience building and shipping production software or services.

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 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 Qualifications

• Experience in development in the Kubernetes ecosystem

• Experience in building large scale cloud services, distributed systems, or operating systems

• Experience developing applications hosted on top of Azure, AWS, or other similar cloud platforms

• Experience with improving service operations or engineering fundamentals.

• Demostrated problem solving and debugging skills

Software Engineering IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $137,600 - $267,000 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 $180,400 - $294,000 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

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until September 12, 2024.

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Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html) .