Principal Software Engineer Lead

Do you enjoy solving problems, writing software, and working with customers? Are you excited about leveraging General AI to innovate and solve complex challenges across various industries?  Do you wake up hoping to find time to learn a bit more about how to containerize compute workloads? Work with high scale data? Or build end to end engineering deployment systems? Do you want to join a team where learning about new technology is part of our work every day?

The Industry Solutions Engineering (ISE) team is a global engineering organization that works directly with customers looking to leverage the latest technologies to address their toughest challenges. We work closely with our customers’ engineers to jointly develop code for cloud-based solutions that can accelerate their organization. We work in collaboration with Microsoft product teams, partners, and open-source communities to empower our customers to do more with the cloud. We pride ourselves in making contributions to open source and making our platforms easier to use.

We develop solutions side-by-side with our customers through collaborative innovation to solve their challenges. This work involves the development of broadly applicable, high-impact solution patterns and open-source software assets that contribute to the Microsoft platform. In this role, you will be working with engineers from your team and our customers’ teams to apply your skills, perspectives, and creativity to grow as engineers and help solve our customers’ toughest challenges.

We are hiring a Principal Software Engineer Lead with deep experience and expertise in designing and delivering solutions using modern software engineering practices and cloud technologies. You will be working side-by-side with high-impact and strategic customers and their engineers to build innovative solutions. As part of our team, you will thrive in working with a variety of technologies, not just Microsoft technology.  You will solve exciting business problems, contribute to open source, and collaborate with Microsoft product teams. You will enable the engineers on your team to apply their skills, creativity, and aspirations to benefit our customers and advance their careers.

Our team prides itself on embracing a growth mindset, inspiring excellence, and encouraging everyone to share their unique viewpoints and be their authentic selves. Join us and help create life-changing innovations that impact billions around the world!

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
  • OR equivalent experience.
• Experience experience building cloud based solutions
• Experience managing and leading other software engineers
• Experience investigating customer requirements and translating those to a solution architecture

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
  • 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
  • OR equivalent experience
• 4+ years people management experience.
• Experience building solutions with Generative AI technologies
• Solid design and coding skills with a bias for architecture at scale
• Demonstrated ability to work with customers and collaborate across company boundaries
• Knowledge of Microsoft Azure, AWS, or similar cloud computing platforms
• Experience building Generative AI solutions
• Strong service delivery experience including architecture, coding, and building online services
• Experience leading geographically dispersed, diverse, and virtual teams

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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.

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People Management

• Managers deliver success through empowerment and accountability by modeling, coaching, and caring.
• Model - Live our culture; Embody our values; Practice our leadership principles.
• Coach - Define team objectives and outcomes; Enable success across boundaries; Help the team adapt and learn.
• Care - Attract and retain great people; Know each individual’s capabilities and aspirations; Invest in the growth of others.
• Directly leading and managing a team of 5-7 software engineers

Understand User Requirements

• Collaborates with stakeholders on user requirements and feedback for features. Applies various feedback channels to improve designs or solutions. Measures customer value, usage patterns, and other metrics of value.

Design

• Leads and coaches others in designing, testing, and securing solutions for products/solutions.
• Working hands-on with your team and our customers from design through implementation of large-scale distributed systems, setting examples for good engineering practices and coding along the way.

Coding

• Leads and coaches team members in code quality, debugging, and performance improvement.

Implement

• Coaches team on project management, experimentation, and deployment across products.

Reliability and Supportability

• Coaches others on live service operations, issue resolution, and telemetry data analysis for system performance and functionality.

Engineering Excellence

• Continuously building your technical knowledge and improving our ability to deliver quality solutions by evolving our engineering process and technical capabilities.
• Coaches others on developing and using tools, automation, and compliance for a product.

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