Principal Software Engineer

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Are you a passionate engineer leader who likes to work on the Intelligent Edge Platform that powers application delivery, acceleration, security, load management and Internet routing for Microsoft, LinkedIn, Azure and many more? Do you have an eye for details and enjoy solving challenging distributed, scale and availability problems at Internet scale? Do you want to dive into new focus areas such as intelligent edge and innovate new Internet technologies?

The Azure Front Door (AFD) team is looking for an experienced Principal Software Engineer, with a solid engineering background and technical depth, great curiosity, high enthusiasm, integrity, and results oriented. You will design and implement globally distributed, scalable and low latency services that offer application acceleration, and service protection to our critical crown jewels partners such as Office 365, Xbox, Azure services, LinkedIn and to Azure customers. You will collaborate closely within our team and other product teams at Microsoft to ensure we’re maximizing efficiency and deploying highly instrumented code to generate metrics across millions of requests/sec and records from thousands of servers located around the globe. You will embrace Open Source (both using and contributing), cross platform (Windows/Linux), and develop across languages (C/C++/C#).

Our mission is to delight our customers by providing Layer 7 (L7) Distributed Denial of Service attacks (DDoS) protection @Edge, HTTP level Content Delivery Networks (CDN), Global Load balancing and Web Application Firewall (WAF) protection against Denial of Service (DoS) and other threats to enable them to maintain high availability and consistency for their workloads.

In our work environment, you will find very friendly co-workers eager to welcome you to the team and help you along the way. We foster and reward collaboration as a key part of our culture and we look forward to meeting you!

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.

Required Qualifications:

• 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.

Other Requirements:

• 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.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with delivering high quality and scale services.
• Experience in managing services with high SLA requirements and live site criticality.
• Experience communicating and collaborating, including cross-group.
• Technical leadership experience in designing and running fault tolerant infrastructure services that run globally in a large scale.
• Experience in any of the following areas: large scale web applications, L7 data plane, distributed control plane, and asynchronous programming models.

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 December 27, 2024.

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• Innovate, drive vision and deliver on critical components for AFD.
• Enable high scale critical services with 100% SLA for Microsoft and beyond.
• Provide technical, end-to-end leadership for the team and charter.
• Mentor and coach other engineers to drive our collaborative and passionate team culture.
• Grow and nurture the team with true Microsoft principles and culture.
• Embody our Culture and Values