Principal Software Engineer
Redmond, WA 
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OverviewSecurity represents the most critical priorities for our customers in a world awash in digital threats, regulatory scrutiny, and estate complexity. Microsoft Security aspires to make the world a safer place for all. We want to reshape security and empower every user, customer, and developer with a security cloud that protects them with end to end, simplified solutions. The Microsoft Security organization accelerates Microsoft's mission and bold ambitions to ensure that our company and industry is securing digital technology platforms, devices, and clouds in our customers' heterogeneous environments, as well as ensuring the security of our own internal estate. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world. Security is a topic you read about every day, and securing the Cloud is more important than ever. Business and governments are under constant threat from a variety of actors, and they are moving to the Cloud in record numbers. We protect Microsoft's customers and their data across the world and secure all Microsoft Clouds. In the mobile-first cloud-first world, security is among the most important elements to get right, it enables trust and keeps people, organizations, and their data safe. We are the Cloud Security group, and we build services that process TBs of data every day to detect software and network related vulnerabilities, across millions of nodes and endpoints. We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer to secure cloud native workloads such as containers, Azure Functions and more. We do this by designing and delivering industry-leading features that delight customers. Core to our team culture is the belief that to run at internet scale, you have a 'people-first' approach. That means we put emphasis on forging an inclusive team culture. Our aim is to be the best and most successful security organization in the world and have fun while doing so. 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.
ResponsibilitiesDesign, implement, test and roll out features that require you to think at Azure wide scale across tens of thousands of clusters across the world. These include distributed load balancing, performance tuning, massively parallel control plane features to manage the exponentially growing Azure fleet.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.Navigate through an ecosystem of multiple domains, technologies, protocols, and stakeholders. Embody our culture and values

 

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