Principal Software Engineer

Microsoft Silicon, Cloud Hardware, and Infrastructure Engineering (SCHIE) is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to join the Azure Hardware Health Service team. This role involves designing, developing, and operating large-scale, low-latency, and high-throughput cloud services to monitor the fleet's hardware health and predict anomalies and pending failures. The ideal candidate will lead and drive highly complex and mission-critical solutions involving multiple Azure Services, provide technical leadership to a team of big data focused developers, and work closely with core Azure teams and data center operations teams.

Key responsibilities include:

• Designing and implementing global scale data pipeline services
• Leading architecture for large-scale systems
• Developing mission-critical scalable distributed systems
• Collaborating with internal teams and external partners
• Ensuring highly available, secure, and actionable results based on hardware health signals, policies, and predictive analytics

The role requires a strong background in Cloud Service development, with experience in shipping cloud services and going through at least one development cycle. Knowledge of hardware, devices, OS, and Firmware health reporting is preferred. The ideal candidate should have a high tolerance for ambiguity, passion for customer satisfaction, and solid data engineering and analysis experience.

This position offers the opportunity to be part of Microsoft's expanding Cloud Infrastructure, working on innovative hardware solutions that power Azure and improve world-class cloud infrastructure. The role is critical in ensuring customers are not impacted by unreliable hardware and contributes to Microsoft's mission of empowering every person and organization on the planet to achieve more.