Principal Software Engineer Job at Microsoft Corporation (Shanghai)

Principal Software Engineer

Microsoft Corporation

Location:
China , Shanghai

Category:
IT - Software Development

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Job Description:

Azure Container Apps is part of the broader Azure organization, with a mission to empower developers to rapidly build, deploy, and manage highly scalable distributed and serverless applications on Azure. Our team builds and operates some of Azure’s most popular, high-growth services, enabling thousands of developers worldwide to run web, mobile, API, event-driven, and IoT workloads with confidence.

Job Responsibility:

Design: Leads the team in developing clear, well-articulated test strategies and defining measurable success criteria for quality outcomes.
Coding: Sets a high bar for engineering quality by coaching others through code reviews that ensure solutions meet team and organizational standards for correctness, reliability, scalability, and maintainability.
Reliability and Supportability: Leads the design and review of instrumentation and telemetry across systems to capture meaningful signals on performance, reliability, availability, usage, and safety.
Understanding User Requirements: Guides collaboration with key stakeholders, including product managers and technical leads, to identify and refine user requirements across team boundaries.
Implementation: Acts as a technical leader in experimentation, guiding teams in evaluating the effectiveness of changes through prototyping, testing, and data-driven analysis across products and partner teams.
Planning and Execution: Guides multiple groups in developing project plans, release plans, and work items in coordination with appropriate stakeholders.

Requirements:

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field and 8+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in one or more programming languages such as C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python, or equivalent practical experience.
5+ years of people management or technical leadership experience leading engineers and driving delivery across complex projects.
Master's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field and 10+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in languages such as C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python, or equivalent experience.
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field and 12+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in languages such as C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python, or equivalent experience.

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
March 14, 2026

Employment Type:

Fulltime

Work Type:

Hybrid work

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