Principal Software Engineer - Hyderabad @ Microsoft

Responsibilities

• Architect and lead the detailed design of CSCP services/systems. Development of brand-new services, re-architecture of existing services, and drive natively integrated end-end solutions.
• Provide overall technical leadership and technical directions to Engineering team. Work closely within the team and across teams to help resolving technical conflicts and achieving consensus.
• Dive deep and Hands-on implementing most critical components, ensure service s quality, especially ensure data quality.
• Strong design and problem solving skills, with a bias for architecting at scale.
• Hands-on experience at shipping a large scale, commercial, online-software solution.
• Evaluate and recommend new technologies that will take the business to the next level.
• Evangelize services we have, best practices and processes.
• Research and keep current on technologies and system solutions.
• Work closely with program managers, engineering and business teams to deliver high quality services.
• Develop best-in-class engineering for our services by ensuring that the services and the components are: well-defined and modularized, secure, reliable, reusable, diagnosable, and actively monitored.
• Partner with cross teams and leaders to contribute to meet immediate and longer-term business objectives.
• Mentor engineers in the team by providing hands-on assistance, best practices, and promoting an inclusive learning environment.

Minimum Qualifications

• B.S, M.S, or Ph.D in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent experience
• 15+ years of experience designing and building large scale distributed systems which deal with huge amount of data, provide high quality data and predict possible events then prevent customer impacts
• Strong Experience with C# or Java, C++
• Strong technical abilities, problem solving, design, rapid prototyping, coding and debugging skills. Strong working experience with in-depth expertise in delivering solutions based on ASP.Net, Web API, Web services/Rest APIs

Preferred Qualifications

• Proven experience in diverse technologies and technical challenges, in services development and systems engineering
• Proven experience in cloud technology stacks (e.g. Azure, AWS, K8S, etc.)
• Hands-on experience at shipping a large scale and resilient commercial, online-software solution
• Cloud experience, cloud native mindset, including performance, reliability, resilience, scale-out and big data analytics/machine learning
• Strong problem-solving skills and passion to solve hard problems as part of a team
• Excellent communication skills, collaboration skills and driving skills
• Demonstrated ability of driving complex problems and reaching consensus across teams
• Excellent communicator, comfortable presenting to large audiences and customers Good interpersonal skills, including teamwork, facilitation, and negotiation