Principal Software Engineer in Bucuresti

OverviewThe growth of Azure is driven by the Azure core organization which focuses on building a highly scalable, performant, and reliable distributed cloud, to deliver an infrastructure for hosting cloud applications in virtual servers and containers. We create an illusion that resources are limitless, infinitely elastic, and always available. The team owns the core management plane at regional level which is responsible for managing the lifecycle of all VMs in Azure. We are in the process of redesigning this layer to provide extremely reliable and fast on-demand compute instances irrespective of the size and scale of the service (multiple orders of magnitude scalable, faster and reliable than today). We are working on architectural and structural improvements across the entire Azure Core stack. The team in working on a few different areas that will have reduce deployment times and improve reliability to surpass our competition. The approach here is multipronged. It involves algorithmic investments, deep involved architectural/protocol changes to improve parallelization or eliminate steps in the workflow and finally smart innovative solutions to pre-process as much of the work as possible and to be able to do the remaining in seconds to get VM ready for customers. We focus on certain high impact scenarios to enable new businesses on Azure. We are a result-oriented team working vertically through the whole stack to deliver order of magnitude improvements.Our strategic expansion in Romania will be supported by a full fledge team involved in the rearchitecture effort and we will be driving projects wholly from Romania site working closely with other engineers in the Redmond, Altanta and India offices. The ideal candidate will be able to collaborate closely with the customer and other teams in Microsoft to develop and deliver the solutions to the projects listed above. We have a proven history of similar successful cross region collaborations. Come and be a part of a team that values collaboration and the idea of working better together.As a Principal Software Engineer in Azure compute you will be able to exercise your growth mindset to identify new ways to solve our critical scale/performance/reliability challenges for our cloud native and mission critical customers. You will be working closely with senior leaders and customers to define the direction of the product and deliver impact working closely with junior and senior engineers in the team to develop a large-scale distributed software services and solutions. You will be able to provide thought leadership and technical direction with architectural inputs for the team to deliver high quality products. We expect the set-up to help you accelerate your own career growth, develop business acumen as well as technical expertise by working and learning closely with other senior leaders in the org.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. #azurecorejobsQualificationsRequired Qualifications:Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.Preferred Qualifications:Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.Excellent customer and partner focus - able to understand their needs through a data driven approachAbility to organize and implement integration tests and resolve problem areasAbility to be a technical Lead for project to drive collaboration across multiple components and lead junior engineers in the teamDemonstrated problem solving skillsExperience with online services and Machine learning/AI - a big plusAbility 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. ResponsibilitiesPartners 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.Lead ongoing engineering effort to refactor existing services and build new ones to meet our business goals.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.Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.Industry leading healthcareEducational resourcesDiscounts on products and servicesSavings and investmentsMaternity and paternity leaveGenerous time awayGiving programsOpportunities to network and connect