Principal Software Engineer

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Microsoft’s Cloud business is experiencing explosive growth, and the Capacity, Supply Chain Provisioning (CSCP) organization is responsible for enabling the infrastructure underlying this growth. Our mission is to deliver the world’s computer with an industry-leading supply chain. CSCP is responsible for strategic sourcing, customer demand forecasting, capacity planning and management, supply chain planning and execution, capacity provisioning, and decommissioning and dispositioning of datacenter assets worldwide.

We are doing this by building highly asynchronous, event driven, distributed microservices and processing complex data at scale. You will be responsible for designing, implementing, integrating, and enhancing these systems. Our team consists of highly motivated, innovative engineers. We work in an agile start-up like environment where our team members contribute toward the mission of the team in a fast-paced setting. As part of our team, you will get exciting opportunities to work on cutting edge technologies across a variety of platforms to build the foundational generation of systems & architecture to revolutionize the way Microsoft and Azure operate a sustainable supply chain.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.
• 15+ years of professional software engineering experience designing, building, and running cloud services at large scale in C#, C++, or Java

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with distributed systems and event driven architectures
• Excellent coding skills, strong in OOPS, OOAD, design patterns and their application
• Strong with Microsoft .NET technologies (C# and the .NET Framework) or Java
• Ability to both work independently and coordinate across geographies.
• Ability to communicate complex ideas and concepts to a variety of cross-group stakeholders.
• Proven ability to deal with ambiguity and drive for clarity.
• Demonstrated ability to work efficiently, prioritize workflow, ramp quickly, and meet demanding deadlines.
• Hands on experience building and maintaining REST microservices using NoSQL storage (e.g. MongoDB, Azure Cosmos DB) and/or graph DBs or RDBMS
• Experience with SQL databases or other relational database systems, including data modelling.
• Experience with data technologies like Azure Data Explorer (Kusto), Databricks, Azure HDInsight, Azure Data Lake, Data Factories, Hadoop, or Spark
• Strong coding, debugging and problem-solving skills.
• Good communications skills; able to share complex ideas with other teams.
• Microsoft Copilot and Gen AI knowledge and deep understanding

Ability 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: Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

• Design and implement microservices to enable real time, highly scalable, performant, and sustainable solutions Design and implement scalable, reliable, maintainable services
• Deliver well-tested features across many different services and platforms.
• Use engineering best practices throughout the software development lifecycle to establish maintainable, reliable, and secure systems.
• Manipulate, collate, and analyse complex, high dimensional data from varying sources to solve difficult problems.
• Collaborate with teammates in various roles to plan and execute on key deliverables.
• Work in a culture of continuous improvement, adaptation, reflection, and growth
• Learn quickly from your peers, projects, and interactions with customers.
• Owns the next gen features of Microsoft AI and leverage Copilot contributing to the business impact.