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Principal Software Engineer

Unlock employer Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates Posted: 30 Aug 2025

Financial

  • Estimate: $120k - $150k*
  • Zero income tax location

Accessibility

  • Fully Remote
  • No Relocation Support
  • Visa Provided

Requirements

  • Experience: Senior
  • English: Professional

Position

About the Job:
Are you passionate about solving deep technical challenges that are foundational to Microsoft’s and Azure’s future? Do you aspire to build cloud-scale services that empower billions of users and drive multi-billion-dollar businesses? If so, consider joining the Azure Compute Platform team. Azure Compute is the backbone of Microsoft’s cloud infrastructure, orchestrating end-to-end customer scenarios across millions of servers in data centers worldwide. We transform this global infrastructure into flexible, reliable, and scalable compute capacity—enabling everything from startups to the world’s largest enterprises to innovate and thrive in the cloud.

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As part of Azure Core Compute, you’ll contribute to the platform that powers every application running on Azure. Whether it’s enabling elastic compute, optimizing performance, or ensuring reliability at scale, your work will shape the future of cloud computing and redefine what’s possible for our customers.

We are a team that values curiosity, collaboration, and continuous learning. We work across boundaries to deliver seamless experiences and are committed to building a diverse and inclusive environment where everyone can do their best work. If you’re a technically strong, growth-minded engineer who thrives on solving complex problems and making a global impact, we’d love to hear from you.

Responsibilities:

  • Build solutions which improve the resiliency and reliability of the Azure platform and ensure high availability for customers.
  • Design and build resilient, scalable systems that enhance the reliability and availability of the Azure platform.
  • Apply distributed systems principles to solve complex engineering challenges with simplicity and clarity.
  • Collaborate across teams and disciplines to deliver end-to-end solutions that meet the evolving needs of our customers.
  • Develop and maintain automation for monitoring, failover, and recovery processes.
  • Participate in on-call rotations, lead incident response, and drive root cause analysis and long-term improvements.

Qualifications:
Required:

  • A bachelor's (or higher) degree in Computer Science or a related field.
  • 8+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, or equivalent experience.
  • Experience in building, shipping, and operating reliable, distributed systems software.
  • Experience developing software hosted in Azure, AWS, or other similar Cloud platforms.
  • Demonstrated problem-solving and debugging skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 10+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, OR Python OR Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.

Language Requirements:

  • No specific language requirements mentioned in the job posting.

Additional Information:

  • Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to, specialized security screenings.
  • Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to various characteristics protected by applicable law.

Please note that relocation will not be supported.

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