Principal Software Engineer
Irving, TX 
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Posted 30 days ago
Job Description
OverviewIf you're excited about innovation and exploration in an environment that supports you and encourages experimentation, check out the Azure Incubations team. We are a fast-paced team within the Azure Chief Technology Office, responsible for identifying new product ideas, incubating those ideas, and if they're successful, handing those incubated ideas off to Azure's service teams. Our goal is to find and develop disruptive opportunities that have the potential to drive value to the Azure business. We work closely with the open-source community as part of our endeavor. To empower innovation, we've created a psychologically safe environment for experimentation and incubation. When we find good ideas, we double down on those ideas, building out the idea into a fully functional product. If you're excited about innovation and exploration in this type of environment, this Principal Software Engineer role is a great role for you. We are an organization that cares about work-life balance, personal and professional growth, enjoying your work, and liking the people you work with. As a remote-first organization with offices on the Microsoft Redmond campus, you'll have the flexibility to work anywhere and interact with team members across the globe from a wide variety of backgrounds. Being a member of the Incubations team means working on projects with high ambiguity. We need engineers adept at looking around corners and creating order out of chaos so we land on the best architecture and design from a myriad of options. We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer who can communicate the project strategy across a broad set of individuals - users, contributors, internal and external partners - with varying levels of technical depth.
ResponsibilitiesWe're looking for a Principal Software Engineer with experience bringing projects to first version products or services. You'll help us evolve a strategic, high potential incubation into an open source project with potential to deliver a 1P service within the Azure ecosystem. In this role you will: Deliver new data centric technology to detect and react to changes in existing data sources. Establish engineering processes and drive technology choices to deliver a performant, resilient, secure product that we are happy to share with the open-source community. Demonstrate deep understanding of the up and downstream effects of these choices. Engage with internal partner teams to enable new technology across a broad range of services. Build bridges between groups, providing team, community, and industry leadership and help define strategy. Enable cross team communications and resolve conflicts between teams. Engage and contribute to the open-source community built around your project. Leadincorporation of appropriate continuous feedback loops measuring customer value, usage patterns, and other actionable metrics of value.

 

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As soon as possible
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Regular, Full Time
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