Principal Software Engineer

Do you want to work on a product that is used by more than 300 million+ people around the world a month and growing rapidly? Do you take engineering driven approach to solve problems? Do you care deeply about how software is constructed and designed with a focus of supporting production scale? Do you want to be part of fun-loving, inclusive, dedicated, and world-class team that continuously pushes the boundary of service and scale? Do you love meaningful work that can advance your career? If so, this may be the opportunity you have been waiting for! 

We are looking for individuals who are passionate about building platforms and have experience delivering quality software for large scale projects.  

About the Org: 
The M365 Core org in Bangalore plays a pivotal role in powering end user experiences around and platform capabilities for the M365 eco system.  

• BS/BTech degree in computer science, engineering or equivalent degree
  10+ years of software development experience with C# or JAVA or C++ or C
• Background in dealing with large scale platforms with exposure to distributed computing/Microservices
• Proven track record as a strong and effective engineering leader
• Strong customer focus and passion for doing the right thing for the customer
• Proven ability to establish trusted, effective relationships across diverse sets of stakeholders
• Excellent communication skills and cross group collaboration
• Ability to quickly pick up existing concepts and employ new techniques and strong problem solving
  

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Are you excited about working on Microsoft 365 (M365) - Microsoft's flagship productivity suite with the opportunity to build planet scale platform and services? M365 provides highly distributed, massively scaled, highly reliable and compliant services for millions of users. We are actively looking for a technical leader to own components critical to M365 portfolio which has direct impact on our topline and solve critical problems for customers in their collaboration, productivity and knowledge management.

Different parts of the platform present different set of challenges from high scale, distributed systems to components which work under resource constraints and need to be highly performant.