Principal Software Engineer

Microsoft’s Health and Life Sciences (HLS) team is dedicated to empowering healthcare organizations to achieve their goals and improve patient care. We aim to create an efficient and connected healthcare ecosystem by bringing the healthcare ecosystem together which empowers everyone across the healthcare journey to collaborate, communicate, and innovate together to provide better experiences for their workforces and patients or members alike.

We are looking to hire a Principal Software Engineer to join our team. Our team has an exciting opportunity for a Principal Software Engineer to join Dax Core team working on platform services providing Ambient Clinical Intelligence as well as other AI functions to Microsoft internal solutions as well as other vendors in the healthcare space.

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/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, JavaScript, Python, Kotlin, or others

  • OR equivalent experience.

• Proven experience in designing, developing, and operating distributed systems and/or services in the cloud.
• Experience working with stakeholders.

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/Additional Qualifications:

• FedRAMP security clearance
• Understanding of AI technologies / models and fundamentals
• Proven ability to tackle complex technical issues when running large scale cloud services.
• Experience with implementing, monitoring and operating software employing Gen AI

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 July 23, 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.

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• Collaborate with stakeholders to determine user requirements and incorporate insights into designs.
• Lead the incorporation of continuous feedback loops to measure customer value and usage patterns.
• Lead architecture discussions, create proposals, and work together with other team members. Ensure system architecture meets security and compliance requirements while taking observability, reliability and global scaling into account.
• Own delivery of new features and services end-to-end, including relevant cloud infrastructure changes.
• Produce maintainable and testable code at high quality. Provide expertise in coding and validation strategy, and ensure code meets quality standards.
• Drive project plans and release plans, break down vision into milestones, and guide project estimation.
• Lead experimentation to determine the effectiveness of changes.
• Maintain operations of live services, develop playbooks for issue resolution and then implement automations for those playbooks to avoid ever needing them. Ensure solutions are scalable and meet compliance guidelines.
• Enhance and contribute to software developer tools, apply automation within production, and stay current with technological developments.
• Provide mentoring to colleagues and peers across the organization
• Actively participate in the on-call rotation.

• Embody our culture and values.