Principal Software Engineer

Overview

The Azure Networking team continues to innovate across the stack, pushing new scale and features into the cloud and desktop platforms while transforming our infrastructure to meet the growing needs of the Artificial Intelligence infrastructure and several hundred thousand customers using Azure Services to host and run their Cloud Services in over 100 datacenters, running millions of servers and edge computing nodes all over the world. Our teams work on the breadth of networking software defined offerings from Software Load Balancer, Virtual Networks, Network Security Groups, and other diverse sets of services.

As a Prinicipal Software Engineer in Software Defined Networking team you will work on unique and highly visible projects in the Networking area that would shape the future of our software services for networking scenarios. The outcome will directly impact supporting the scale and pace needed for innovating on the requirements of Artificial Intelligence workloads. You will be responsible for defining, driving execution and adoption of different features and capabilities in the core azure networking stack that will have a significant business impact. You will have the opportunity to work in a broad range of technical areas, and across component teams inside Microsoft Azure, and within the Cloud & Enterprise division.

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Responsibilities

• Partners with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a set of scenarios.
• Leads 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 products.
• Leverages subject-matter expertise of cross-product features with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to drive multiple group'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.