Principal Software Engineer

Office 365 is Microsoft’s hosted collaboration and productivity suite which is at the core of our mission ‘to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more’. This suite has hundreds of millions of users around the globe and includes services such as Sharepoint, Exchange and Outlook.com, Teams and Office Graph.

The M365 Transport team provides the messaging services for many of the Office 365 features. One obvious example would be Email, but the same messaging infrastructure is truly critical to many other features just as well, and currently handling several tens of billion messages per day.

The code this team works on powers the world’s largest application service impacting hundreds of millions of individuals every single day. We work with technologies such as .NET Core (including TAP and multithreading), web services, distributed caches, big data analytics, open source libraries and Azure services. And if necessary, we have access to a variety of professional experts to ask for assistance and learn from. Our organization is focused to deliver more value to our customers while making our systems more efficient, which provides both technical challenges and growth opportunities.

Join M365 Transport as a Principal Software Engineer and help to empower the hundreds of millions of current and future customers!

• Degree in Computer Science or related field (OR equivalent work experience)
• Commitment to a Growth Mindset and customer focus.
• Strong technical problem solving, communication and mentoring skills.
• Principal/Lead Engineer level experience in software development, including DevOps and distributed systems.

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. 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.

• A strong sense of ownership and level of autonomy.
• Design and deliver features end to end in a complex high scale environment that are ‘serviceable’, low maintenance and with provable quality.
• Collaborate with other engineers, program managers, and designers across the MS365 organization and beyond to deliver end-to-end solutions
• Drive innovation and quality in our engineering processes and practices, and foster a culture of excellence, collaboration, and learning. Mentor other engineers and help them achieve more and grow.
• Stay abreast of the latest trends and developments in the identity and security domains and apply them to our products and services.
• Alignment with the Microsoft Corporate values.