[Hiring] Principal Software Architect @Microsoft

Role Description

Azure Resource Graph’s (ARG) mission is to reliably organize the planet-scale cloud inventory and make it accessible to every Azure customer through scalable and performant tools. As a Principal Software Architect, you will:

• Be responsible for the technical design and vision for building the necessary underlying systems to enable high throughput query-ability or high throughput ingestion-services in the platform.
• Design scalable architectures for distributed systems that integrate machine learning and intelligent agents.
• Partner across Azure to build platform capabilities that accelerate AI adoption and unlock new customer experiences.
• Define and lead the strategy for ARG’s evolution into big data and LLM/agentic services.
• Guide engineering teams in building high-performance, future-ready services with immediate customer and business impact.
• Achieve quality results with laser customer focus.
• Build distributed micro-services in the area of proprietary columnar databases, replication, batching, agentic, indexing, change tracking, insights, and in defining graph models.
• Focus on end-to-end services, development, and deployment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.
• Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements.

Requirements

• Master'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, JavaScript, or Python OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 12+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.
• 8+ years deep hands-on working knowledge of building true cloud-scale services.
• 10+ years experience in one of the object-oriented programming languages including runtime internals like C#, Java, etc.
• 5+ years operational experience in running your service in one of the large-scale clouds like Azure, AWS, GCP.
• 5+ years of exposure to the internals of databases, stores (optional qualification).
• 5+ years of hands-on working knowledge of building true cloud-scale services.
• 2+ years of exposure to the internals of databases, stores.
• 4+ years of exposure to the internals of Big Data Systems like Spark, Kubernetes, Structured Streaming, etc.
• 1+ year of exposure with LLMs/RAG/Agentic.

Benefits

• The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $139,900 - $274,800 per year.
• For specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, the base pay range for this role is USD $188,000 - $304,200 per year.
• Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.

Company Description

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.