Azure is the world’s leading cloud offering, trusted by hundreds of millions of users worldwide.

The Azure Edge + Platform (AE+P) organization’s portfolio spans the Cloud Edge Stack, Azure Sovereign Clouds, Azure Edge Security, Azure Engineering Systems, Azure Media Services and Microsoft’s Operating Systems including the Azure Host OS, Linux and Windows. This portfolio impressively powers the world with more than one billion monthly active devices, delivers Azure to customers in their premises and Sovereign regions, and seeks to accelerate growth for Azure, Experiences & Devices, and Microsoft’s customers worldwide.

Engineering Systems (ES) team is responsible for developing the tools and services used to plan, design, author, manage sources, build, package, manage artifacts, and validate services and products across Azure, Windows, and Edge. The Engineering systems organization in AE+P is a diverse team changing the way Azure code is built, tested, and released across the division and the entire company.

As a Principal software engineer, you will lead development for a variety of services and platforms. You will be responsible for building and delivering latest Azure offering. You will get the opportunity to define the limits of Cloud Computing, and work with customers to solve real world problems. You will be responsible for driving new investments to solve hard problems, maintaining key infrastructure components using advanced software techniques, defining architectures, partnering with teammates, ensuring high code quality, high availability, security, compliance, and scalability of our services. This will be a place where you will innovate to overcome current technology, you will bring in solutions which solve resiliency, scale, security, compliance for our global customers across various Azure Geographies

As a team, we are interested in smart, self-driven individuals, with a positive can-do attitude, who come to work with a smile and enjoy writing clean and elegant code. We value passion, creativity, teamwork, agility, accountability, inclusivity, and desire to learn new complex technical areas. An unquenchable drive to write code, own quality, and a passion for helping ship high quality software is a must.

This position offers a unique opportunity to have a direct impact on our business, positively impacting millions of people, empowering them to do more and achieve more. You will be working with various organizations, internal and external, and across multiple geographies and time zones.