Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft

Microsoft is a company where passionate innovators come to collaborate, envision what can be and take their careers further. This is a world of more possibilities, more innovation, more openness, and the sky is the limit thinking in a cloud-enabled world.

The AI Platform organization at Microsoft builds the end-to-end Azure AI stack/PaaS (Platform as a service) and is core to Azure’s innovation and differentiation, as well as all of Microsoft’s flagship products, from Office to Teams, to Xbox. We are the team building Azure OpenAI, Azure ML, Cognitive Services, and the global Azure AI infrastructure for running the largest AI workloads on the planet.

We do not just value differences or different perspectives. We seek them out and invite them in so we can tap into the collective power of everyone in the company. As a result, our customers are better served.

Within AI Platform, the Azure ML team enables data scientists and developers to quickly and easily build, train, deploy, manage, and consume machine learning models.

We are looking to hire a Principal Software Engineer to join our team.

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.

In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with key stakeholders to comprehend and identify user. requirements, scope solutions, estimate work, and schedule deliverables.
• Lead discussions on the architecture of products or solutions and apply engineering principles to establish robust and maintainable architecture and designs.
• Manage and drive feature execution with high quality and great agility.
• Lead by example by producing extensible and maintainable code, adhering. to best engineering practices, raising the quality bar, and improving the team's response to customer incidents.
• Lead the team to respond, resolve, and integrate customer feedback with agility and dedication.
• Mentor and grow junior developers.

Other:

• Embody our Culture and Values
• 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

• 3+ years of experience with distributed systems design and implementations.

Other Requirements:

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:

• Proficiency in Agile development practices and Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD).
• Experience working on large-scale projects or applications.
• Effective communication skills and ability to collaborate with diverse remote teams.
• Quick learner with a passion for solving complex and exciting problems.
• Familiarity with machine learning, artificial intelligence, and data science.
• Familiarity with Azure is a plus.

Software Engineering IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $133,600 - $256,800 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $173,200 - $282,200 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:

https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay