Principal Software Engineer - Architect
- Location
- United States
- Job type
- Full-time
- Level
- Executive
- Experience
- 8+ years
- Education
- Bachelor's degree
- Listed
- 28 days ago
Skills & highlights for this role
- distributed systems
- low-latency design
- system design
Also useful
- Azure
- AWS
- Google Cloud
About the role
Architecting services for large scale and low latency requirements to handle millions of requests per minute completing under 10ms. Design and develop features for large scale distributed software services and solutions Communicate technical details clearly across organizational boundaries and customers. Adhere to modern software engineering practices through design and code reviews.
System design through well-defined interfaces across multiple components, code reviews, leveraging data/telemetry to make decisions. Develop “best-in-class” engineering for our services by ensuring that the services and the components are well-defined and modularized, secure, reliable, diagnosable, actively monitored and reusable.
Write clean and optimized code, improve test coverage for services, organize and implement integration tests, and resolve problem areas. Consider testability, portability/monitoring, reliability, and maintainability, and understand when code is ready to be shared and delivered. Focus on customer/partner needs through a data driven approach.
Experiences to understand access to resources in a way that is simple to comprehend and achieve least standing privileges. Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, Rust, Go, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.
Demonstrated ability to write clean, maintainable, and efficient code. Experience with cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud: Understanding of cloud infrastructure and services. Strong problem-solving and analytical skills: Ability to diagnose issues, identify root causes, and implement effective solutions. Proven experience in building scalable and reliable software solutions.
5+ years architecting distributed systems.
From Microsoft's careers page, first listed on Rolev.ai on October 11, 2026. Rolev.ai is not the employer.
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