Principal Software Engineer

Do you describe yourself as an explorer, builder, and lifelong learner who thinks collaboratively and has a solid technical background as a software developer? We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer who embraces these roles on Experimentation and Configuration Service (ECS) in Microsoft 365 (M365) Core Platform, also known as Substrate.   

ECS provides a powerful Configuration Management Platform that enables safe and quick reconfiguration of service or client software without requiring redeployment. This platform supports configurations driven by multiple factors, including A|B experiments, feature rollouts, live-site mitigations, and telemetry toggling or sampling.   

We are looking for a passionate Principal Software Engineer to help us with the adoption of new technologies, add features and continue to improve quality and resilience for different scenarios. As you take on these technical challenges, you have access to technical subject matter experts, world-class engineers and architects for guidance. These projects provide plenty of technical challenges and career growth opportunities. The team is globally distributed across different regions.  

Required 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, or Python
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 6+ years of experience in software development, in a productional DevOps environment.   

Preferred Qualifications:

• 8+ years of experience in software development, in a productional DevOps environment.
• Experience partnering with cross-functional teams to deliver widely impactful initiatives. 
• Experience in building, shipping, securing, and operating reliable, distributed systems software. 
• Experience of engineering systems, development of pipelines and resiliency enhancement. 

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.  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.

1. Design high quality components using clean and tested code. 
2. Integrate Azure technologies to achieve high resilience and reliability. 
3. Lead architecture, design, and develop features and solutions with high quality. 
4. Design, implement, and refine chosen solutions in close partnership with Product Management and partner teams. 
5. Review and contribute to the specifications and implementations written by other team members.  
6. Provide technical leadership across features, projects, service fundamentals, and tools. 
7. Provide support to online services by investigating and mitigating issues.