Principal Software Engineer
 Microsoft | |
remote work
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 United States, Texas, Irving | |
| 7000 State Highway 161 (Show on map) | |
 Oct 22, 2025 | |
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OverviewAs organizations fully embrace cloud computing and move mission critical workloads into Microsoft Azure, the cloud infrastructure and platform are facing ever increasing challenges and requirements for reliability, performance, and scalability.If you are curious in understanding such challenges and are passionate about shaping next generation cloud technologies to systematically improve the core cloud architecture, this is the right team for you.Azure Core is at the engine of Microsoft's Cloud, powering infrastructure that is the foundation for cloud computing. As a Principal Software Engineer in the Azure core engineering team, you will innovate with top notch colleagues and develop the latest cloud technologies. This opportunity will allow you to accelerate your career growth, work firsthand with customers globally, and uplift the entire cloud industry. There is a flexible work opportunity and you can work from home partially.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.
ResponsibilitiesWork with internal and external stakeholders to understand challenges and identify opportunities from Mission Critical Customers' perspectives.Define and plan technology requirements and solutions to resolve complex end-to-end business and engineering challenges from Mission Critical Customers' Container Runtime Interface (CRI) lens.Drive the architecture plan, review, and development. This would entail both understanding and helping the customer define their solution architecture on the Azure platform, as well as: driving issue or gap resolution across the Azure team as they are encountered and driving systemic improvements across Azure or proactively identifying feature gaps/capabilities and working across teams to ensure customers are enabled.Partners with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a set of scenarios.Leverages subject-matter expertise of cross-product features with appropriate stakeholders to drive multiple group's project plans, release plans, and work items to land customer exposed issues.Holds accountability of Designated Responsible Individuals (DRIs), mentoring engineers across support/products/solutions, working on-call escalations to monitor and mitigate 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 with customer-centric mindset. | |