Principal Software Engineer

As a Principal Software Engineer on the team, you will be directly impacting billions of users of MS Start. Our mission is to provide safe, high quality and engaging content to the users who utilize our product. We use advanced AI and LLM based techniques to serve high quality content to MS Start users. We are looking for a hands-on team lead to lead platform efforts of CE&G, who is not afraid to explore new ideas and bring the goodness of modern technology to CE&G.

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. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Required 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.
• 4+ years of experience designing and building scalable cloud solutions in distributed systems.
• 4+ years of experience building and shipping production quality software or services.

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 

Preferred Qualifications:

• Passion in designing and building very large scale distributed systems.
  
• Experience working with Service Fabric or Kubernetes.
  
• Experience with building software systems that apply security best practices.
  
• Drive to improve performance, availability, and reliability of services.
  
• Drive to increase efficiencies through automation.

Software Engineering IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $137,600 - $267,000 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 $180,400 - $294,000 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 will accept applications for the role until November 22, 2024.

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.  We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

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

• As Principal Software Engineer on the team, you will be responsible for leading the architectural design and development of complex distributed software systems. You will partner deeply across disciplines as well as across teams to help deliver results and products that are highly reliable and scalable, learning constantly while solving tough technical challenges.
• You will be providing technical guidance and mentorship to and mid-level engineers and utilize them to build complex systems. You should participate in code reviews and provide feedback to other engineers. At the same time, you are a hands-on engineer who delivers high quality code that is maintainable, performant, and testable and used in cross products.
• You will collaborate with product managers, policy experts, operations and partner teams to understand requirements, translate them into technical specifications and to an implementable solution for which success is measurable and has timelines specified.
• You will be a proactive thinker, and you won't wait for guidance. Production quality matters to you and you should take active roles to constantly improve production quality.