Principal Software Engineer, Azure DNS

Are you interested in working for the team that owns and powers one of the most fundamental pieces of the Azure cloud? Are you looking for a new challenge to demonstrate your expertise in building systems operating at massive scale with extremely high availability requirements (100% SLA (Service Level Agreement))? Then look no further than the Azure DNS team.

As a Principal Software Engineer in Azure DNS (Domain Name System) team, you’ll embark on a mission to build the world’s most reliable network and the cloud. The components that you will be working on span our portal, scalable restful API (Application Program Interface) layer built on top of geo-replicated data stores, data plane and health monitoring that helps build self-healing systems. You’ll own key projects and drive them end to end with good quality and reliability.

This opportunity will allow you to innovate and solve complex scale and availability problems in running critical global services on an internet scale. You’ll provide technical leadership for the service. You’ll work in a team with other smart, passionate, and skilled engineers to deliver results as collaboration is one of the key pillars of our team culture.

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.

Responsibilities

1. Collaborate with appropriate stakeholders to drive projects end to end from initial problem scoping to implementation and timely delivery.
2. Mentor and coach other engineers to drive our collaborative and passionate team culture.
3. Design, implement, test, validate and release software features to production stages with good quality, performance, security, and maintenance.
4. Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) for the service, monitor system uptime and alerts, develop, and follow playbook to restore service health, and identify innovative solutions for automated self-healing systems.
5. Innovate and improve engineering excellence to enable growth at scale and operate efficiently.
6. Provide technical, end-to-end leadership for projects, adapting to new trends, solutions, and advancements in DNS space.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

1. 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# or Java
2. OR equivalent experience
3. 6+ years of experience with large distributed backend systems
4. 1+ years of experience as a technical lead

Other Requirements:

1. 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:

1. 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# or Java
2. 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# or Java
3. OR equivalent experience.
4. Design and problem-solving skills, with a bias for quality and engineering excellence at scale
5. Experience in any of the following areas: DNS protocol, large scale web applications, SQL/No-SQL databases and asynchronous programming models.

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.

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until June 8, 2024.

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