Principal Software Engineer

Overview

Join Microsoft as a Principal Software Engineer and become an integral part of a team that impacts millions of users worldwide. We are looking for passionate engineers to design and build the next generation of collaboration and teamwork experiences. This role is part of the Skype Core Services team, responsible for delivering mission-critical services that provide client applications access to a multitude of Office 365 Core Services, including our Intelligent Conversation and Communications Cloud.

Responsibilities

Drive architecture processes across the organization, including communicating with geo-distributed diverse teams and creating forums for a wider engineering audience to share and collect feedback on specific architectural challenges.
Lead the identification of dependencies, development of design documents for the product, application, service, or platform, and identify other teams and technologies that will be leveraged.
Identify best practices and coding patterns, providing deep expertise in coding and validation strategy.
Create and apply metrics to drive the quality and stability of code, as well as appropriate coding patterns and best practices.
Leverage subject-matter expertise of cross-product features with appropriate stakeholders to drive multiple groups' project plans, release plans, and work items.
Break down long-term project vision into milestones as part of an overall roadmap.
Ensure engineering solutions meet all requirements, including performance, resiliency, privacy, security, and compliance.
Lead by example and mentor others to produce extensible and maintainable code used across products.
Work across the broader organization to drive reusability and alignment, identify opportunities to simplify and standardize solutions to reduce complexity, improve performance, efficiency, effectiveness, and return on investment.

Qualifications

Required

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline AND 6+ years of 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 experience working on large-scale cloud applications, distributed systems, and backend development.

Preferred

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 10+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java OR Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years of technical engineering experience.
Experience with Kubernetes or Service Fabric.
Strong analytical skills with a systematic and structured approach to software design.
Experience working across teams and divisions, communicating technical details clearly across organizational boundaries.

Additional Information

This is a remote position.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer.

Salary

The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is €137,600 - €267,000 per year. In specific locations like the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, the base pay range is €180,400 - €294,000 per year.