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Senior Principal Software Engineer

Microsoftbangalore, India

12 hours ago

Job description

Overview

We are building a planet scale multi-modal database from the ground up. You will be part of the team that is reimagining the databases in the era of LLMs by deeply integrating AI into all parts of the stack.

As a Principal Software Engineer, you will lead and collaborate with a team of passionate engineers, driving ideas to impactful results in a fast-paced environment. You will be working on building and using system-level software (e.g., distributed systems, operating systems, databases, networking, etc.). You are experienced in software engineering from ideation and architecture design, to writing high-quality code, to shipping.

Successful engineers in our team have problem solving, design, coding and debugging skills, drive for execution and results, rigor in delivering quality software and a desire for continuous learning. Our team values a friendly, collaborative atmosphere with a passion for technology, and we believe that a diverse team with diverse perspectives that applies empathy and uses great communication skills helps deliver superior products and is key to success. This is a great opportunity to challenge yourself, grow your career, and influence the next generation of computing at Microsoft.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

Bachelor'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.

Experience in shipping products and services.

Currently programming / coding in your current or most recent role.

Preferred Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

OR related technical field AND 12+ 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 10+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python

OR equivalent experience.

2+ Year(s) experience in Prompt Engineering

Experience with Fine Tuning and PyTorch

Experience with CUDA

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Responsibilities

This will be an individual contributor role with the majority of time focused on coding responsibilities.

Partners with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for one or more complex scenarios.

Provides technical leadership for the identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.

Leads by example and mentors others to produce extensible and maintainable code used across the company.

Leverages deep subject-matter expertise of cross-product features with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to lead multiple product's project plans, release plans, and work items.

Holds accountability as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI), mentoring engineers across products / solutions, working on-call to monitor 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.

Benefits / perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.Industry leading healthcareEducational resourcesDiscounts on products and servicesSavings and investmentsMaternity and paternity leaveGenerous time awayGiving programsOpportunities to network and connect

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