Principal Software Engineer

We are building the Intelligent Conversation and Communications Cloud (IC3). We power Microsoft’s first-party real-time conversation products, notably Skype and Teams with many millions of users, by providing reliable and high-quality audio and video calling, meetings, and chat services that work every time, from anywhere, on any device. And we expose our core capabilities to third-party partners, with which they can bring conversations to life in their own products. With IC3, we will enable customers to do more by making conversations on our platform more intelligent, surfacing useful information in real-time and taking actions on the customers’ behalf during the conversation. And, we will learn from each conversation. Every call, meeting, or chat will make the next one better.

Building and running services at scale for Microsoft 365 for hundreds of million consumer and enterprise users is very challenging, but it is a lot of fun and rewarding. We are looking for passionate engineers at many levels to help us do just that to power and deliver on IC3 mission.  This opportunity will allow you to make a broad positive impact across many critical IC3 domains such as chat, audio/video calling, meetings, service and data engineering, and service management.

We want you because you have an passion for technology, your intellectual curiosity and willingness to learn, your ability to communicate well in a team environment, your desire to make our team better with your contributions and of course your ability to deliver the right results at the right time.

Required/Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java
  • OR equivalent experience.
• Development, debugging and profiling on at least two platforms (Win, Mac, Android, iOS)
• Experience in design and development as part of large-scale products, and familiar with Agile development methodologies

Other Requirements:

Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to, the following specialized security screenings:

• • Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter. 

Additional or Preferred Qualifications:

• Solid knowledge of native graphics APIs, for example DirectX, OpenGL, Media Foundation

• 2+ years of industry programming experience in C/C++ or object-oriented programming

• Development experience for real-time communications

• Web development experience

Software Engineering IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $133,600 - $256,800 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $173,200 - $282,200 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. 

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

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As we are beginning to define innovative video communication scenarios for the future Teams release, we are looking for seasoned developers to help us create the next wave of products and services that will provide premium as well as inter-operable video conferencing experiences for our customers.

As a Principal Software Engineer, you will architect, design, and implement real time video technologies and innovations used in Teams products taking advantage of all capabilities accessible to our clients across a large variety of devices. Your responsibilities will be extending and making these capabilities available to our partners, thus allowing for a multiplicative innovation effect. This position gives you the unique opportunity of working on state-of-the-art video solutions, across a multitude of Microsoft and partner teams involved in providing a high-quality development platform for our partners.