Principal Software Engineer

Are you interested in working for one of the most exciting teams at Microsoft owning a fundamental piece of the Azure cloud? Looking for a new challenge to demonstrate your expertise in building systems at massive scale with extremely high availability (100% SLA)? Then look no further than the Azure DNS Team. We are looking for an engineer with deep technical expertise, a curiosity-driven mindset, and a strong sense of ownership. You’ll work on globally distributed, scalable, and low-latency services that serve critical workloads across the globe.

The Azure DNS team is looking for a Principal Software Engineer with deep technical expertise, a curiosity-driven mindset, and a strong sense of ownership. You will work to design and implement a globally distributed, scalable and low latency super service that provides DNS capabilities for the most critical domains in the world. The developer will work with a team of other software engineers to design and implement various components that constitute this state-of-the-art distributed systems solution and ensure a timely execution of the components with high quality - think of 1 billion records at very low latencies. Running DNS at such scale requires building systems that are resilient to multiple failure patterns with continuous investments in quality of service.

 Azure DNS also enables other innovations in Azure by providing a robust platform for resource naming across all Azure features like Storage, Software Defined Networking, databases and Azure Compute. This provides an enormous learning opportunity to build integrated solutions with other Azure services. This team also owns building services for DDoS protection of DNS service and you will play a key role in ensuring a smooth integration of core DNS services with the DDoS solutions. In our work environment, you will find very friendly co-workers eager to welcome you to the team and help you along the way. We foster and reward collaboration as a key part of our culture and we look forward to meeting you!

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• Work with engineers, program managers and partner teams to deliver a set of features with the right overall design and architecture. 
• Write clean well-thought-out code with an emphasis on quality, performance, simplicity, durability, scalability, and maintainability.  
• Own certain components from design, engaging with other teams to manage dependencies, implementation, to monitoring of the deployed service. 
• Deploy/patch/feature rollouts with health signal controlled safe deployments.
• Work on Linux, Windows and Azure tools.
• Exhibit thought leadership in helping take the service forward with new capabilities, innovations and improving the experience on existing capabilities.
• Effectively create clarity of status, progress and blockers affecting large projects.
• Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and guides other engineers by developing and following the playbook, working on call to monitor service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions, alerting stakeholders about status and initiates actions to restore system/product/service for simple and complex problems when appropriate. 
• Help create a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone can bring their full and authentic self, where all voices are heard, and where we do our best work as a result.   

Required Qualifications:

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.