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Principal Software Engineer - Microsoft

Bellevue, United States

Do you want to be part of the fastest growing product in Microsoft history? Do you thrive in building complex, hyper-scale services with real customer impact, while having fun at work? Then we have a great opportunity for you!

Microsoft Teams is the hub for teamwork in Microsoft 365 that integrates all the people, content, and tools your team needs to be more engaged and effective. It is core to Microsoft’s modern work, modern life & modern education value prop. At Microsoft Teams, we tackle some of the most interesting challenges in team collaboration and is filled with opportunities to work with teams and technologies across the company and beyond.

As a team, our culture is inclusive, casual, and high energy. Our team members come from diverse backgrounds, thrive through teamwork, and are grounded in our customer needs. We're looking for passionate back-end or full-stack engineers to join us on this journey. We are in a journey to build next set of awesome features for Microsoft Teams Premium, these features are not only huge growth engines & revenue drivers for Teams, but they directly add to the end-user experience and their trust with the product they love. The services & apps we build must be highly scalable to meet the needs of an ever-growing user base and must be resilient and performant to ensure compliance. This is a unique opportunity to hone your system design skills and will give you exposure to cutting edge technology stack (.NET Core, ASP.NET Core, Service Fabric, Redis, Azure Cosmos DB) as well as cross-org collaboration opportunities. You will have E2E ownership and can make significant contributions with real-life impact to millions of users across the globe. #microsoftteams

  • Design, develop and testing of features.
  • Lead by example, continuously raise the bar of operational and engineering excellence of the team.
  • Drive modern software engineering practices in design and code review.
  • Help stand up scalable & reliable services with great monitoring & telemetry support.
  • Collaborating with partner teams to deliver delightful experiences. 
  • Prototype and iterate on innovative features, collaborating with other feature teams. 
  • Investigating and prototyping new technologies and frameworks. 
  • Undergraduate or Graduate degree in Computer Science or related Engineering disciplines
  • 8+ years of C# and .NET or equivalent software development experience   
  • Self-motivated with a strong drive for reaching across teams and organizations to make progress collaboratively.
  • Demonstrated ability to mentor other engineers.
  • Strong analytical, problem solving and organizational skills   
  • Experience working on large scale cloud applications 
  • Excellent collaboration and communication skills
  • Ability to deal with the ambiguity associated with working in a fast-paced and changing environment 

Preferred Qualifications 

  • Develop test plans/cases, and scenarios in support of ongoing applications and infrastructure.   
  • Demonstrated solid working knowledge on cloud computing / Azure / AWS  
  • Familiar with Agile/Scrum/Lean Methodology   
  • Evaluate current services and drive performance, availability, and supportability improvements  

Drive increased efficiencies through automation and reduction in operational expenditure 

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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Published on: 12/1/2022
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