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Microsoft Corporation Principal Software Engineer in Redmond, Washington
Security 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.
The Purview Data Governance team’s mission is to deliver a market leading solution for enterprise data management, discovery, understanding, and access. The customer personas served by Purview Data Governance include the enterprise data office, enterprise-wide data owners and data stewards, and enterprise-wide data consumers across all organizational functions. We are seeking a Principal Software Engineer to join us in our mission of creating a cutting-edge cloud service and AI (Artificial Intelligence) based enterprise data governance solution and practices for our customers.
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.
Responsibilities
Drives a customer-first, live site-first, design-first, and agile team culture to develop, secure and operate cloud services at high scale, throughput, and resilience.
Leads and implements design decisions to champion and incorporate scalability, cost optimization, and observability.
Develops and maintains a comprehensive architecture and execution plan for the long term.
Creates clarity and leads the definition of priorities and planning of engineering deliverables.
Solves challenges posed by problems with unclear solutions, timelines, and constraints.
Facilitates alignment within and across all the partner teams on technology and design decisions.
Fosters a culture of partnership, respect, and inclusion working within and across teams, roles, and geography.
Offers technical advice to the leadership team.
Mentors and grows other engineers.
Architects and delivers robust Data Governance solutions, innovation and Artificial Intelligence (AI) adoption.
Collaborates on complex Cross-Functional Projects.
Other
- Embody our Culture and Values
Qualifications
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
OR equivalent experience.
- 6+ years of full stack engineering experience using C#/.NET, TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, React, Redux, Python, Scala, C++, Java
Other Requirements:
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 PythonOR 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.
Applied experience in the practice of federated data governance in a global enterprise.
Broad understanding of enterprise architectural considerations pertinent to SaaS solutions.
Applied experience in building and operating federated enterprise data management solutions.
Applied experience in architecting and implementing solutions with complex integrations.
Experience in building and shipping production-grade, large-scale, fault-tolerant cloud services and distributed systems.
Experience in building AI/Copilot experiences in enterprise/commercial software.
Experience in navigating enterprise change management.
Software Engineering IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $137,600 - $267,000 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 $180,400 - $294,000 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 June 25, 2024.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html) .