Principal Software Engineer

Microsoft 365 (M365) Intelligent Conversation and Communications Cloud is the platform that powers billions of real-time customer conversations across Microsoft’s first-party (Teams, Skype), second-party (Dynamics), and third-party solutions (through Azure Communication Services). The platform enables reliable and high-quality messaging, meeting, and audio/video calling services that work every time, from anywhere, seamlessly across all customer touchpoints. Conversations on our platforms are made more intelligent in real-time, empowering best-in-class productivity tools for the modern workplace where every call, meeting, or chat will make the next one better.    

We are the team behind all the messaging scenarios across multiple products, and develop one of the largest scale, business-critical distributed systems in Microsoft. Our services run in 25+ regions, and we process billions of messages a day, enabling hundreds of millions of active enterprise as well as consumer users. The micro services are highly scalable, highly available, and extremely performant in geo-redundant, multi-tenant systems and honor data sovereignty, privacy, security, and compliance. As a Principal Software Engineer you will have an opportunity to work with a highly collaborative and fun team in a fast-learning environment. 

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/Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor'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.
• 8+ years of software design and development experience with backend services.  
• 5+ years architecting distributed systems. 

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. 

Additional or Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
  • OR related technical field AND 12+ 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 10+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • OR equivalent experience.
• Communicate technical details clearly across organizational boundaries.  
• Experience in DevOps to maintain live services and\or application frameworks, and experience with or exposure to Agile and iterative development processes. 
• Cloud and services experience, with Azure cloud experience highly desirable.  
• Analytical skills with systematic and structured approach to software design.  
• Building highly scalable, highly reliable services.

Software Engineering IC6 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $161,600 - $286,200 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 $209,600 - $314,400 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 22, 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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• 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 “best-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.  

• Write quality code and 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.  
• Embody our Culture and Values