Principal Software Engineer

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Our team is responsible for the core backend engineering systems that power Microsoft 365 Copilot delivering intelligence, quality, and transformative new features. We work at the intersection of research and engineering—advancing search technologies, and shipping impactful, LLM model-driven experiences in Microsoft 365.

We are a team that values diversity of multiple fronts and believes in deep collaboration bringing the best side of technology. Our team consists of engineers with expertise in large-scale software systems, data scientists, and machine learning.

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 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 equivalent experience.
• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience designing, building, and running cloud services at large scale in C#, .Net or any high-level programming language.
• Excellent coding skills, strong understanding in OOPS, design patterns and their application.
  
• Self-learner with passion for technologies.
  
• Must know Secure by Design principles.
  
• Outstanding ability to both work independently and coordinate across geographies.
  
• Outstanding ability to communicate complex ideas and concepts to a variety of cross-group stakeholders.
  
• Solid organization skills, a bias for action, and ability to deliver results.
  
• Proven ability to deal with ambiguity and drive for clarity.
  
• Excellent ability to work efficiently, prioritize workflow, ramp quickly, and meet demanding deadlines.
  
• Outstanding communication skills and collaboration capabilities.
  
• Self-learner with passion for technologies.
  
• Able to deep dive in complex areas and self-drive.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Excellent knowledge of cloud-computing environments like Microsoft Azure, AWS, GCP - Azure preferred.
• Hands on experience in an object-oriented programming language such as C#, Java or Scala.
  
• Solid software design and problem-solving skills.
  
• Experience with modern software services engineering practices such as testing in production, live monitoring, data driven engineering.
  
• Rapid prototyping and iteration skills the next line.
  
• Experience with web service development and familiar with related technologies.
  
• Basic automation scripting skills with PowerShell and developing modules.
  
• Experience building and shipping production grade software or services.
  
• Experience using agile methodologies or test-driven development (TDD)
  
• Rapid prototyping and iteration skills.

• Oversees overall system architecture for a critically important and high-impact space delivering M365 Copilot services across clouds.
• Maintain operations of live service as issues arise on a rotational, on-call basis.
• Write well designed code with an emphasis on quality, maintainability, scalability, and performance.
• Solid understanding of Design and implement to enable real time, highly scalable, performant, and sustainable solutions.
• Deliver automated and well-tested features across different services and platforms.
• Use engineering best practices throughout the software development lifecycle to establish maintainable, reliable, and secure systems.
• Collaborate with teammates in various roles to plan and execute on key deliverables.
• Work in a culture of continuous improvement, adaptation, reflection, and growth.
• Learn quickly from your peers, projects, and interactions with customers.
• Provide on call support and monitor the health of services in production as part of DevOps culture.
• Embody our culture and values.