Principal Software Engineer - Microsoft

Help empower people and organizations to act in real time based on all relevant data to solve the problems of today and realize the opportunities of tomorrow.

As part of Microsoft’s Intelligence Platform division, we’re creating the future of real-time intelligence products. In effect, we’re augmenting reality with timely, data-driven insights. We’re making it easy for people to make sense of the millions of events happening around them and see what actions to take every second of every day. We’re helping businesses and organizations eliminate their blind spots and delays and create innovative new value for their customers.

We’re looking for software engineers to build exceptional web and mobile applications, cloud services, development kits, and AI/ML models so people can easily extract the full value of the signals around them. You would solve challenging technical problems and leverage the latest technologies to deliver world-class user experiences, interactive designers, and real-time streaming data platforms.

We’re a small, rapidly growing team. We value people, learning, and excellence. We cultivate a high-trust environment with great collaboration, open dialogue, and fun. It is a place for you to learn a lot and grow, both as an engineer and as a technical leader. We seek out diverse perspectives and challenge our assumptions, so we find the best solutions and build the best product. We try new ideas, learn, fail-fast, and try again. And ultimately, we love delighting our customers and helping them succeed.

To that end, we’d like your help and unique perspective!

Responsibilities:

• Deliver world-class user experiences and features to customers on time
• Design, implement, test, and operate high-quality cloud services and/or web applications
• Drive engineering improvements continuously to ship more rapidly and efficiently with higher quality
• Contribute to the product vision, roadmap, architecture, and planning
• Collaborate with partner teams to deliver new value in our product and across Microsoft’s products
• Work with customers to understand their pain points and make them successful
• Foster a culture of excellence, inclusion, collaboration, and customer focus

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 o OR equivalent experience.

• 5+ years of technical leadership in shipping high-quality, large-scale cloud services and/or applications

Preferred Qualifications

• Systematic problem solving with clean, modular architecture and design
• Track record of excellence in software engineering, including agile, design, coding, testing, and devops
• Excellent leadership, mentorship, collaboration, influencing, and communication
• Experience with building and operating services on cloud platforms (e.g., Azure, AWS, GCP)
• Experience with building applications on web technologies (e.g., React, TypeScript, Webpack, GraphQL)
• Experience with using big data, analytics, and visualization technologies (e.g., SQL, D3, Highcharts)
• Growth mindset to learn, seek diverse viewpoints, and ask questions that draw out the best in people
• Startup mentality to move and iterate rapidly, work across disciplines, and focus on customers
• Hands-on experience in .NET, Node.js, or React.js

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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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Cloud Screening (required for all C+AI Job Descriptions)

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• This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

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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 as reasonable.