Principal Software Engineer

We are the  Azure Communication Services  Team. Azure Communication Services (ACS) is a new Communication Platform as a Service (CPaaS) offering, launched at Ignite 2020.   

We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer that can help us power reliable, high-quality Voice Calling, Public Switched Telephony Network (PSTN), video calling and meeting services across Microsoft products.  Our service platform is well architected, globally distributed, highly scalable and built for the Cloud.  The World continues to scale towards remote work, learn and play.  Come find your purpose with us to connect the World.  We are grounded in our mission to enable all organizations and customers to achieve more in work and life.  Our Team is growing fast and learning fast to enable the next generation of communication experiences.  We need candidates like you across all walks of life and experiences. There are opportunities in different areas to help grow and mature our services and processes. We have a wide impact, social and business related. For instance, we’re empowering healthcare groups scale during this pandemic. We’re also looking for new ways to generate intelligence based on usage patterns and sentiment analysis to empower our customers to do more, more intelligently. You will be joining a team, where diverse opinions are important and play a major role in our product and technology roadmaps, and where we care about your career. We welcome your mindset to make a team. For more information see https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/communication-services/. 

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.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field 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 software design and development experience with backend services.

Other Requirements:

Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:

• Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Preferred Qualifications:    

• Ability to communicate technical details clearly across organizational boundaries.   
• Experience in DevOps to maintain live services and\or application frameworks.   
• Cloud and services experience, with Azure cloud experience highly desirable.   
• Demonstrated analytical skills with systematic and structured approach to software design   
• Commitment to building highly scalable, highly reliable services   
• Experience with or exposure to Agile and iterative development
• 10+ years of software design and development experience with backend services.

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 June 25, 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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We are looking for a candidate who is passionate about designing and building high quality reliable Cloud Services.  As a Principal Software Engineer in our team, you’ll be working on changes to one or more services to meet the growing needs of Microsoft first party and second party solutions. For a given project, you’ll be expected to meet with stakeholders/PM to get the requirements, deal with ambiguity, guide less experienced engineers, document the design and review within the team, at times implement the design, manage the flighting of the new feature, and implement additional monitoring and metrics as needed for the feature.  In short, you will truly own your project from start to finish and will be responsible for delivering it yourself or by leading a team of engineers. 

Key responsibilities   

• Design and develop large scale distributed software services and solutions.   
• Adhere to and drive modern software engineering practices through design and code reviews.   
• System design through well-defined interfaces across multiple components, code reviews, leveraging data/telemetry to make decisions.   
• Develop “in-class” engineering for our services by ensuring that the services and the components are well-defined and modularized, secure, reliable, diagnosable, actively monitored and reusable.   
• Improve test coverage for services, organize and implement integration tests, and resolve problem areas.   
• Consider testability, portability/monitoring, reliability, and maintainability, and understand when code is ready to be shared and delivered.   
• Gain a working understanding of Microsoft as a business and collaborate with mentors and leaders in order to contribute to cohesive, end-to-end experiences for our users.   
• Focus on customer/partner needs through a data driven approach.  

  Other

  • Embody our Culture and Values