Principal Software Engineer, Azure Networking

Overview
Imagine, building the world's computer that provides unprecedented reliability and unlimited scale, an organization that empowers individuals to achieve their best and treasure grass root innovation, technology that spans networking, operating systems, user experience (UX), security, and a solution that enables millions of customers to run their mission critical services with confidence. As part of Azure Networking are responsible for enabling enterprises to connect their on-premise networks and devices to the cloud, in the most secure and performant way possible.
As a Principal Software Engineer in Azure Networking team you will plan, design, develop, test and deploy software systems to build scalable and secure networking infrastructure. You will be responsible for building the next generation network data plane (using DPDK (Data Plane Development Kit), Windows NDIS kernel drivers and Linux kernel modules) to power multiple networking services.
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.
In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.
This role does not provide relocation assistance.
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 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.
• Embody our Culture and Values.

Qualifications
Required Qualifications:

• 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, Go, or Python.
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 3+ years experience in software defined networking or distributed systems.

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, Go or Python.
  • OR 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, Go, or Python.
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of development experience in technologies like DPDK, Windows NDIS Kernel Drivers, and Linux Kernel Modules. Knowledge of FPGA, Data Processor Unit (DPUs) and ARM cores.

Software Engineering IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $133,600 - $256,800 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 $173,200 - $282,200 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
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