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Principal Software Engineer
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Washington, Redmond | |
 Aug 14, 2025 | |
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OverviewAzure Legion is the backbone of Azure Container Apps and Azure Functions Flex Consumption. It is a newly built, fast growing, highly optimized service with capabilities such as supporting burst scale to 1000s of instances with dynamic VNET injection. We are looking for Principal Software Engineer to join the team for taking the platform forward in their evolution. 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
ResponsibilitiesArchitect, design, and develop large-scale distributed cloud services and solutions with a focus on high availability, scalability, robustness, and observability.Lead project development across the organization and work with subject matter experts and stakeholders to drive development and release plans.Evaluate alternative architectures and technologies that best fit the business requirements and service KPIs.Take end-to-end responsibility for the development lifecycle and production readiness of the services you build and drive the team's DevOps culture.Drive and uphold the best practices of modern software engineering through code and design reviews and take effective service decisions based on data and telemetry.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. As a DRI, reproduce, debug and fix customer-reported problems.Provides technical leadership for the identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.Understand Microsoft businesses and collaborate with stakeholders towards cohesive, end-to-end experiences for Microsoft customers.Embrace a growth mindset and stay up to date with the current and state-of-the-art technologies to improve customer experience and better serve the product's business needs. | |