Principal Software Engineer

Key Skills

logo, JavaScript, Java Programming, Python Programming, SQL, DevOps, API, Azure, AWS, Continuous Integration & Continuous Delivery - CI/CD, Github, C# Programming, Large scale data processing, Data pipelines

Job Description

Do you enjoy solving business problems through great software? Do you want to make an impact on healthcare? Are you a builder who loves designing well-architected solutions and seeing them come to life with elegant code? Our team is focused on solving problems in the Healthcare industry and we are looking for engineers who love to learn and are eager to share what they know with colleagues and customers.

The?Commercial Software Engineering (CSE) team is a global engineering organization that works directly with customers, leveraging the latest technologies to address their toughest challenges. We work closely with our customers’ engineers to jointly develop code for cloud-based solutions that can accelerate their organization. We work in collaboration with Microsoft product teams, partners, and open-source communities to empower our customers to do more with the cloud. We pride ourselves on making contributions to open source and making our platforms easier to use.

We are hiring a Principal Software Engineer with deep experience and expertise in designing and delivering solutions using modern software engineering practices and cloud technologies. With your team, you will be working side-by-side with high-impact and strategic customers and their engineers to build innovative solutions. As part of our team, you will thrive in working with a variety of technologies, not just Microsoft technology.? You will solve exciting business problems, contribute to open source, and collaborate with Microsoft product teams. You will mentor and coach other engineers across our team, sharing your expertise and learning from them too.

Our team prides itself on embracing a growth mindset, inspiring excellence, and encouraging everyone to share their unique viewpoints and be their authentic selves. Join us and help create life-changing innovations that impact billions around the world!

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Responsibilities

• Collaborate with customers’ engineers to deliver Azure cloud solutions for healthcare, adapting to the customer’s development tools and languages and establishing engineering best practices such as PR/CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code, logging, monitoring etc.
• Designing large-scale distributed systems using Azure services
• Writing exemplary code to implement complex parts of the solution and bringing team members along 
• Continuously improving our ability to deliver quality solutions by evolving engineering processes and technical capabilities
• Mentoring team members to drive excellence in engineering as a cohesive, efficient, and productive unit

Qualifications

Required:

• 10+ years of experience shipping or running production systems and/or software written with one or more of these languages – C#, Python, Java, Go, JavaScript
• 3+ years of cloud experience building large-scale distributed systems and APIs, preferably on Azure, AWS, or Google cloud 

?Preferred:

• A good working knowledge of agile software development methodologies and tools such as Azure DevOps, GitHub, or others
• Experience with one or more of these technologies – containers, serverless, modern data stores, big data analytics
• Experience working with external customers
• Effective communication and collaboration skills
• Demonstrated ability to quickly learn new languages and technologies
• A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related discipline or comparable practical experience 
• Comfortable with?travel to meet customers for 3 – 4 days every 2 months

For Colorado Only

• The salary for this role in the state of Colorado is between $158,800 and $238,200
• At Microsoft, certain roles are eligible for additional rewards, including annual bonus and stock. These awards are allocated based on individual performance. In addition, certain roles also have the opportunity to earn sales incentives based on revenue or utilization, depending on the terms of the plan and the employee’s role.
• Benefits/perks listed here may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.US-based employees gain access to healthcare benefits, a 401(k) plan and company match, short-term and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance, and fitness benefits, among others.

At Microsoft, we are seeking people who have a passion for the positive impact technology can have on communities and for making a difference in the world. Within CSE, you will find a wide range of backgrounds, perspectives, personal and cultural experiences which are vital to our success with our customers.?It’s an informal and flexible work environment and you’ll be welcome to work in the way that best enables you to get your job done.???