Principal Software Engineer (Full Stack)

We are looking to hire a Principal Software Engineer (Full Stack) to join our team! 

Microsoft is embarking on a new effort to address the growing needs of employees around the world with Microsoft Viva, an employee experience platform.  Microsoft Viva brings together the tools and applications your business needs for communication and feedback, analytics, goals, and learning-all in one unified solution. Our team works on foundational services that power Microsoft Viva and Microsoft 365 overall.

We are looking for an Principal (Full Stack) to balance the role of individual contributor while also helping provide technical direction and mentoring other engineers on the team. We have a full roadmap and some interesting challenges to navigate. This role would be ideal for those who enjoy applying systems thinking and can build cross team partnerships. The Employee Experience team is run as a start-up, encouraging team members to share a sense of “founderism”. Team members become advocates for seamless customer experiences, build scalable, reliable and performance services, iterate rapidly, help drive clarity amid ambiguity and focus on solving the needs of employees around the world. Our culture is inclusive, casual and passionate. Our team celebrates diverse backgrounds, and values passion for serving our customers. Our team has a sense of accountability and provides its members with opportunities for learning and career growth.  If this sounds exciting to you, we would love to hear from you.  

This opportunity can be 100% remote within the United States, or hybrid based in Redmond, WA. 

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.  

If all of this sounds exciting to you, we would love for you to connect with us. 

Required Qualifications:  

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience coding in JavaScript, Java, TypeScript, Python or Go/Goland
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 4+ years experience with UI development, including HTML, CSS, and responsive design principles.  
• 6+ years of experience in designing, building, and managing highly available and distributed large-scale services.  

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Experience with existing M365 foundational technologies such as Substrate.  
• Experience with the tradeoffs of using different user experience, state management and service/data access technologies. 
• Experience in software engineering practices, coding and solid foundation in data structures, algorithms with proven testing, debugging and analytical skills.  
• Familiarity with DevOps practices such as continuous integration, continuous delivery, testing, and monitoring.  

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 and processes offers for these roles on an ongoing basis.

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.

• Design and implement scalable, reliable and performant backend services   

• Plan and implement beautiful, crisp, and maintainable user-facing experiences that are accessible to everyone.   

• Plays a key role in shaping the system architecture that provides measurable customer value, along with driving engineering and operational excellence across the product.  

• Provide technical leadership, driving and performing best engineering practices to initiate, plan, and execute large-scale, cross-functional, and organizationally critical programs.   

• Drive long-term design thinking for systems and engineering processes, with simplicity and maintainability as core tenets.   

• Partner and work collaboratively with people across Product, Design, and Engineering teams spanning across geographies to deliver complex, large-scale experiences.   

• Ensure appropriate level of instrumentation, observability, alerts and monitoring for the systems. 

• Provide thought leadership to the team on service security, compliance, privacy and accessibility. 

• Propose and implement robust, scalable, performant, and maintainable solutions that are tested, reviewed, and checked in regularly for continuous integration.   

• Optimize code for best performance and accessibility 

• Champions best practices and optimal coding patterns and provides deep expertise on the coding and validation strategy 

• Be a role model for an open, honest, and inclusive approach to problem-solving.   

• Mentor and develop engineers across all levels through sharing and learning. 
• Embody our Culture  &  Values