Principal Software Engineer
Microsoft · Posted Oct 21
Software, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and hardware services
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About the role
The Growth team accelerates adoption of Copilot and Microsoft 365, operating at the strategic epicenter of Copilot, Agents, and Platform (CAP). The team delivers embedded experiences across the Microsoft 365 suite (Teams, Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, Excel) to drive growth of generative AI solutions across commercial and consumer segments. This Principal Software Engineer role provides technical vision and hands-on leadership, driving architectural transformation and building client, full-stack, and backend solutions to support Product-Led Growth.
What you will do
- Partners with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a set of scenarios.
- Leads identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.
- Leads by example and mentors' others to produce extensible and maintainable code used across products.
- Leverages subject-matter expertise of cross-product features with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to drive multiple group's project plans, release plans, and work items.
- Holds accountability as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI), mentoring engineers across products/solutions, working on-call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions.
- Proactively seeks new knowledge and adapts to new trends, technical solutions, and patterns that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale and shares knowledge with other engineers.
- Shapes how the team works in the age of AI by championing responsible AI-assisted engineering practices, driving adoption across the development lifecycle, and measuring improvements in developer productivity, quality, learning, and delivery speed.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- Understanding of GitHub Copilot will be an added advantage.
- Experience with product-led growth, experimentation platforms, product analytics and instrumentation, or activation and adoption funnels for high-scale products; familiarity with Microsoft 365 or Copilot scenarios and GitHub Copilot is a plus.
- Native Android/iOS/Windows/macOS experiences using modern C++, Java, Kotlin, Objective-C, Swift and platform-specific frameworks OR equivalent experience.
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation is a multinational technology company that develops, licenses, and supports a wide range of software products, services, and hardware devices. Best known for its Windows operating systems, Microsoft 365 productivity suite, and Xbox gaming consoles, the company has expanded heavily into enterprise cloud computing via Azure and advanced artificial intelligence solutions. As one of the world's most valuable public enterprises, it empowers individuals and businesses globally through innovative digital transformation.
- Industry
- Software
- Company size
- 228,000+ employees
- Founded
- April 4, 1975
- Location
- Redmond, Washington, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Leadership
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Chief Financial Officer
Vice Chair and President
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