Principal Software Engineer

Microsoft is a company where passionate innovators come to collaborate, envision what can be and take their careers further. This is a world of more possibilities, more innovation, more openness, and the sky are the limit of    thinking in a cloud-enabled world. 

Substrate is the data and intelligence platform that enables internal partner teams at Microsoft to build, deploy, and maintain compliant productivity apps and services with reduced effort and faster time to market. The Substrate Directory team owns the directory service that provides user access to Substrate and inter-machine communication within the Substrate. We work closely with Azure Active Directory to provide directory functionality to our partners and users. We are starting the journey of replacing technology, underpinning much of our service. 

We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer who enjoys solving massive scale challenges and embracing the cultural values of inclusion and belonging. At the core, our team works at massive scale and provides a set of intelligent, compliant, and high-value services that enable the next generation of transformative Office 365 experience.  You will be a Key Contributor on the team who will own the implementation and full lifecycle of the solutions in C#.  

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. 

In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day. 

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 

           o OR equivalent experience. 

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Bachelor'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 o OR Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python  

            o OR equivalent experience. 

• Proficient development and unit testing in C#/C++.  
• Development experience and deeper understanding of database systems like SQL server / CosmosDB / PostgreSQL is preferred. 
• Experience with design and implementation of enterprise-scale services.     

• Verbal, written, and cross-team collaboration skills are essential to succeed in this role.   
• Working knowledge of Distributed Systems and Cloud Technologies. 
• Ability to work and thrive in a dynamic, collaborative environment. 
• Experience driving a complex multi-year infrastructure project. 
• Communication skills and experience working across disciplines and functions. 
• Experience as an engineering manager, or a technical lead with a passion for coaching and mentoring others. 

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 Septemeber 9, 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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This Principal Software Engineer opportunity will allow you to make a broad positive impact that will include building appealing developer experiences, solving complex algorithmic problems, forging real-time troubleshooting tools via complex data models, streamlining our monitoring systems, evolving our metrics to enable large scale performance optimizations, or even enabling intricate business/engineering processes.   

As an engineer, you will be responsible for implementing features towards a wide variety of business applications and services within Office 365 products portfolio as well as ensuring they are done to meet rigorous quality standards with the result being software that is used by individuals and businesses throughout the world.  

As the Principal Software Engineer on the Substrate Directory team, you will be responsible for:  

• Partners with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a set of scenarios. 
• Leads efforts and discussions for the architecture of aspects of products/solutions (e.g., design, cost). Creates proposals for architecture and design documents and leads testing of hypotheses and proposed solutions. 
• Leads by example and mentors’ others to produce extensible and maintainable code used across products. Leads efforts to optimize, debug, refactor, and reuse code to improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI). Identifies best practices and coding patterns and provides deep expertise in the coding and validation strategy. 
• Leads efforts for creation and conducting of experimentation to determine the effectiveness of changes, monitors developments for prototyping and testing products, interprets results, and decides on next steps or ship decision from results. 
• Holds accountability as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and mentors’ other engineers across products/solutions, working on call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions. 
• Applies, extrapolates, and identifies best practices and shares information with other engineers to reliably build code that is based on well-established methods while also applying best practices for new code development. 
• Proactively seeks new knowledge and adapts to new trends, technical solutions, and patterns that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale and shares knowledge with other engineers. 
• Collaborate on the design of the overall services with a focus on service reliability and automated troubleshooting. 
• Research, architect, develop and deliver solutions in an evolving agile development environment. 

Embody our Culture and Values