Principal Software Engineer

Define the long-term architectural direction for Azure Specialized platform services, leading design reviews and influencing technical strategy across organizations. Drive engineering excellence, operational rigor, and architectural consistency while serving as a trusted technical advisor to engineering leadership and partner teams. Design and evolve highly available distributed cloud services, improving scalability, resiliency, observability, security, and operational efficiency. Partner across engineering teams to simplify and modernize cloud platform architectures, establish reusable platform patterns, and resolve complex technical challenges spanning multiple systems and stakeholders. Drive the strategy and evolution of diagnostic and troubleshooting platforms, applying telemetry, analytics, and artificial intelligence-assisted engineering techniques to accelerate root cause analysis and reduce customer impact. Improve platform supportability and issue resolution through data-driven operational insights, enabling faster identification, mitigation, and resolution of issues across Azure Specialized services. Lead reliability improvements for mission-critical platform services by establishing service health frameworks, Service Level Objectives, operational metrics, and governance models while reducing recurring incidents and operational risk. Mentor engineers, strengthen technical leadership across teams, improve engineering productivity and effectiveness, and foster a culture of technical excellence, ownership, collaboration, and continuous improvement. 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#, Java, JavaScript, or Python 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 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 equivalent experience. Should have 5+ years of experience in the networking & compute field.