New 
Principal Software Engineer
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Texas, Irving | |
| 7000 State Highway 161 (Show on map) | |
 Oct 03, 2025 | |
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OverviewAre you looking for an opportunity to build the networking platform that's powering Azure and the most used LLM in the world? The Azure Networking team is responsible for designing and building the software defined network infrastructure that powers millions of servers around the globe for Azure, Bing and other Microsoft/partner cloud services. Azure Networking is at the forefront of Hyperscale Cloud Computing and runs one of the largest datacenter network infrastructures in the world. The physical network team manages all physical switches and routers inside Azure datacenters.We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer to join our Physical Network Container Management team. This team owns the platform that's leveraging Kubernetes and container technologies to accelerate the evolution of the physical networking infrastructure, which is crucial to Azure's security, observability, reliability and cost-efficiency. The team owns the control plane and data plane services that enable containerized services used by the physical network infrastructure to be deployed with minimal service disruption and ensured safety. The platform operates on a massive scale with large clusters distributed geographically. This poses unique challenges for service reliability, scalability and data consistency. This platform is positioned to transform the security, observability and serviceability of Azure's physical network with automation, agility and safety.Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.
ResponsibilitiesCollaborates with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a scenario.Drives identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.Creates, implements, optimizes, debugs, refactors, and reuses code to establish and improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI).Leverages subject-matter expertise of product features and partners with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to drive a workgroup's project plans, release plans, and work items.Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and guides other engineers by developing and following the playbook, working on call to monitor system/product/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.Proactively seeks new knowledge and adapts to new trends, technical solutions, and patterns that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale. | |