Principal Software Engineer

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Azure Resource Graph’s (ARG part of ARM/Azure Control plane) mission is to Reliably organize the planet-scale cloud inventory and making it accessible to every Azure customer through scalable, and performant tools.

ARG is the Inventory of cloud resources, dependencies, services, apps & Azure metadata and is a core service enabling almost all Azure experiences and workloads that are running on top of Azure. Azure Portal, Azure Market Place, Search, Catalog at-scale experiences scenarios for every single Azure customer are powered by ARG. It provides a single pane of glass to query cloud resources via a set of flexible standards with rich scalable, efficient constructs. These standards and toolsets are used by large customers and first party teams alike. ARG’s vision is to enable any customer (large to small) to organize, govern, secure, manage and explore their environments at-scale. Anything we design, develop, or deliver aligns with this vision. As of today, we return close to 6.5+ billion cloud resources per day through these standards to our customers and independent software vendors. This position is one of the core engineering functions and sits right in the center of the platform enabling various other connected engineering functions.

As a Principal Software Engineer in Azure Core's ARG group, you will be responsible for the technical design and vision for building the necessary underlying systems to enable query-ability on the massively large, connected graph cloud inventory. You will optimize the runtime of the distributed system and the query engine to achieve ambitious performance goals, leveraging the standard authorization engine of the cloud for secure access control across the system. You will work closely with cross-functional teams across Azure Core and Microsoft to drive the architecture, design, and development of Project Galaxy.

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 field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, or Java
  • OR equivalent experience

• 6+ years of experience in one of the object-oriented programming languages including runtime internals like C#, Java, etc.
• 4+ years of operational experience in running your service in one of the large-scale clouds like Azure, AWS, GCP.
• 2+ years of experience providing technical leadership, raising the technical bar, maintaining data and results-driven culture while closely working with cross function teams for the same connected mission.

Other Qualifications:

• 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:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
  • OR related technical field AND 10+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript,
  • OR Python
  • OR Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • OR equivalent experience.

• 4+ years deep hands-on working knowledge of building a true cloud-scale services.

• 2+ years of exposure to the internals of databases, stores.

• 2+ years experience leveraging fundamental principles to guide your choices and decisions, applying these principles practically in both coding and design.

Software Engineering IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $139,900 - $274,800 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 $188,000 - $304,200 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 May 30, 2025.

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• You are responsible for the technical design and vision for building the necessary underlying systems to enable query-ability on the massively large, connected graph cloud inventory to serve billions of resources per day to the callers.
• Responsible for optimizing the runtime of the distributed system and the query engine to achieve ambitious performance goals right from the entry point of the cloud to the lowest layer in the architecture and everything in between.
• Leverage the standard authorization engine of the cloud for secure access control across the system while not compromising on the performant corpus query-ability scale.
• Work closely with cross-functional teams across Azure Core and Microsoft to drive architecture, design, and development of Project Galaxy effort.
• Lead by example. You are a hands-on practitioner of standards in the team, organization.
• You will provide strong technical leadership, raising the technical bar, maintaining data and results-driven culture, nurture a team culture of high collaboration and trust.
• Your ability to balance the long-term architecture while delivering the incremental milestones with simplicity and maintainability as core tenets will advance the Galaxy effort semester over semester towards the North Star goals.
• You will be a role model for an open, honest, and inclusive approach to problem solving.