New 
Principal Software Engineer
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Texas, Irving | |
| 7000 State Highway 161 (Show on map) | |
 Aug 21, 2025 | |
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OverviewJoin the Azure Compute Foundation team, a vibrant group at the heart of Azure Compute. We shape and manage the lifecycles of millions of machines and containers, combining scale with complexity handling. Here, we foster a growth mindset, cultivating an environment where collaboration sparks innovation and drives success. We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer to join our team that provides foundational services for Microsoft Azure. If you are interested in cloud computing, want to work on a team whose services are foundational for all the Azure customers worldwide, and want to play a vital role in the design of mission-critical features of Azure, then we have an excellent opportunity for you.Your role will gain you valuable experience in cloud services, data center networking, monitoring, and security, as well as working with partner teams. We need talented individuals like you to work on control plane services, tooling, and automation. This role also offers great opportunities to work with many partner teams and gain broad exposure to control plane and data plane technologies end-to-end.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, develop, and deliver services, tooling, automation, tests and monitoring for Azure Compute foundational services.Create, implement, optimize, debug, refactor, and reuse code to establish and improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI).Leverage subject-matter expertise of product features and partners with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to drive a workgroup's project plans, release plans, and work items.Leads by example and mentors others to produce extensible and maintainable code used across products. | |