Microsoft · 1 day ago
Principal Software Engineer - Purview
Redmond, WA
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$140K/yr - $275K/yr
8+ years expMicrosoft is dedicated to making the world a safer place through its Security organization. The Principal Software Engineer - Purview will lead efforts in designing and developing secure, high-quality software solutions while ensuring compliance and performance across systems.
Application Performance ManagementArtificial Intelligence (AI)Business DevelopmentData ManagementDevOpsInformation ServicesInformation TechnologyManagement Information SystemsNetwork SecuritySoftware
Responsibilities
Owns product/solution architecture by testing design hypotheses and creating detailed specifications
Explores and evaluates design options, outlining strengths and weaknesses for complex scenarios
Collaborates with architects to build and modify complex solutions, providing feedback proactively
Identifies and manages dependencies, ensuring security, compliance, performance, and reliability across systems
Coordinates with other teams to resolve conflicts and achieve common goals where dependencies overlap
Produces high-quality, secure, and performant code, applying best practices and improving maintainability
Escalates blockers and risks, communicating impacts on timelines and proposing mitigation strategies
Conducts timely code reviews, ensuring standards, test coverage, diagnosability, and adherence to best practices
Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI), monitoring systems, responding to incidents, and driving global resolutions
Leads efforts to reduce incident volume, analyzing patterns and implementing broad preventive measures
Design and develop large scale distributed software services for Microsoft Purview Solutions. Adhere to and drive modern software engineering practices through design and code reviews
Partners with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a set of scenarios. Leads efforts and discussions for the architecture of aspects of products/solutions (e.g. design, cost)
Creates design documents and leads testing of hypotheses and proposed solutions
Leads by example and mentors’ others to produce extensible and maintainable code used across products. Leads efforts to optimize, debug, refactor, and reuse code to improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI)
Identifies best practices and coding patterns and provides deep expertise in the coding and validation strategy
Leads efforts for creation and conducting of experimentation to determine the effectiveness of changes, monitors developments for prototyping and testing products, interprets results, and decides on next steps or ship decision from results
Develop “best-in-class” engineering for our services by ensuring that the services and the components are well-defined and modularized, secure, reliable, diagnosable, actively monitored and reusable. Improve test coverage for services, organize and implement integration tests, and resolve problem areas
System design through well-defined interfaces across multiple components, code reviews, leveraging data/telemetry to make decisions
Consider testability, portability/monitoring, reliability, and maintainability, and understand when code is ready to be shared and delivered
Gain a working understanding of Microsoft as a business and collaborate with mentors and leaders to contribute to cohesive, end-to-end experiences for our users
Focus on customer/partner needs through a data driven approach
Qualification
Required
Bachelor'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, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience
8+ years of experience as a software engineer designing, implementing, and shipping cloud services or software products
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role
This position will be required to pass the Microsoft background and Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter
Benefits
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
Company
Microsoft
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10001+ employees
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