Principal Software Engineer
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Texas, Irving | |
| 7000 State Highway 161 (Show on map) | |
 Apr 24, 2025 | |
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OverviewAzure Compute is Azure's most profitable business and is growing incredibly fast! We provide millions of virtual machines for customers to run their workload in the cloud. We are a globally available foundational service that hosts services with the scale of Bing/Skype/AzureStore/SQL, host millions of multiplayer gaming sessions and allow solving large computational problems in seconds. Azure Compute team is the "kernel" of Microsoft's Cloud OS. We build a fault tolerant distributed system on top of commodity datacenter hardware, to deliver an infrastructure for hosting cloud applications in virtual servers. We create an illusion that resources are limitless, infinitely elastic, and always available.Kronox is a team which helps customers manage Virtual Machines at scale by providing a simple way to set-up/destroy the resources at predefined schedule and do it as quickly as possible to optimize COGs. This becomes an exercise in constantly balancing the tradeoffs between higher SLA (resources are available when needed) and COGs (resources should not be running longer than needed). This puts the team at the intersection of large-scale distributed systems and advanced data science and ML prediction model s. If you're interested in attacking hard technical problems and driving innovation in an area that has huge potential for impact on the company's future, then this is THE position for you.As a Principal Software Engineer in the Azure Kronox team, you will have the opportunity to design and build a massively scalable distributed system, focusing on high performance and high reliability. You will grow our product working closely with our customers and partners and providing greater intelligence and choices to customers when accessing the Azure capacity across regions at scale.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* 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. | |