Principal Software Engineer

Do you enjoy solving problems, writing software, and working with customers? Do you have experience building and operating cloud-scale applications? Working with high-scale data? Or building end-to-end engineering deployment systems? Do you understand the ins and outs of cloud networking or the challenges of bringing complex ML systems to production?

The Industry Solutions Engineering (ISE) team is a global engineering organization that works directly with customers looking to leverage the latest technologies to address their toughest challenges. We work closely with our customers’ engineers to jointly develop code for cloud-based solutions that can accelerate their organization. We work in collaboration with Microsoft product teams, partners, and open-source communities to empower our customers to do more with the cloud. We pride ourselves in making contributions to open source and making our platforms easier to use.

We develop solutions side-by-side with our customers through collaborative innovation to solve their challenges. This work involves the development of broadly applicable, high-impact solution patterns and open-source software assets that contribute to the Microsoft platform. In this role, you will be working with engineers from your team and our customers’ teams to apply your skills, perspectives, and creativity to grow as engineers and help solve our customers’ toughest challenges.

We are hiring a Principal Software Engineer with deep experience and expertise in designing and delivering solutions using modern software engineering practices and cloud technologies. With your team, you will be working side-by-side with high-impact and strategic customers and their engineers to build innovative solutions. As part of our team, you will thrive in working with a variety of technologies, not just Microsoft technology.  You will solve exciting business problems, contribute to open source, and collaborate with Microsoft product teams. You will mentor and coach other engineers across our team, sharing your expertise and learning from them too.

Our team prides itself on embracing a growth mindset, inspiring excellence, and encouraging everyone to share their unique viewpoints and be their authentic selves. Join us and help create life-changing innovations that impact billions around the world!  

Required Qualifications: 

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

Preferred Qualifications:

• Solid design and coding skills with a bias for architecture at scale
• Demonstrated ability to work with customers and collaborate across company boundaries
• Knowledge of Microsoft Azure, AWS, or similar cloud computing platforms
• Strong service delivery experience including architecture, coding, and building online services
• Experience working as part of geographically dispersed, diverse, and virtual teams
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 12+ years 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 10+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
• OR equivalent experience.
• Enjoy travel and are comfortable with travel up to 25%

At Microsoft, we are seeking people who have a passion for the positive impact technology can have on communities and for making a difference in the world. Within ISE, you will find a wide range of backgrounds, perspectives, personal and cultural experiences which are vital to our success with our customers.  It’s an informal and flexible work environment and you’ll be welcome to work in the way that best enables you to get your job done. 

We invest in your health, wellness, and financial future by offering a competitive package including a wide range of benefits built around your personal needs and those close to you.  

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.

#ISEngineering

• Understand User Requirements

  • Collaborates with stakeholders on user requirements and feedback for scenarios and designs.
  • Working hands-on with your team and our customers from design through implementation of large-scale distributed systems, setting examples for good engineering practices and coding along the way.

   

  Design

  • Leads architecture, design, testing, and quality assurance of products/solutions and mentors junior team members.
  • Being a great teammate to actively help other engineers become stronger problem solvers, architects, communicators, and collaborators.

   

  Coding

  • Leads code quality, optimization, debugging, and verification efforts across products.

   

  Implement

  • Leads cross-product projects, experiments, and deployments for improving customer value.

   

  Reliability and Supportability

  • Leads on-call operations and solutions for live service issues; reviews and writes postmortems; mentors other engineers; collects and analyzes telemetry data; designs and integrates instrumentation.

   

  Engineering Excellence

  • Modeling our core values and being a mentor, coach, and advisor to other engineers on our team.
  • Continuously building your technical knowledge and improving our ability to deliver quality solutions by evolving our engineering process and technical capabilities.
  • Leads software development tools, automation, quality, compliance, and knowledge sharing across products.