Principal Software Engineer

Join us to build the future of end user computing! Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows 365 are fundamentally changing the nature of personal computing, pushing computing to the cloud and making remote experiences better, more secure, and easier to manage than local. We are experiencing exponential growth given the explosion of hybrid work and the changing security landscape and are rapidly growing our team to help scale our product and build new and innovative AI powered experiences.

As a Principal Software Engineer on this team, you will get an amazing opportunity to demonstrate leadership at both technology and business level. You will be part of a diverse, fast growing and agile team working with a motivated team of engineers and product managers. Our culture is more like a startup - we will do what is necessary to help customers be successful, move fast, and have fun building meaningful products and services!

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

Responsibilities

• Design and develop large scale distributed software services and solutions.


• Adhere to and drive modern software engineering practices through design and code reviews.


• System design through well-defined interfaces across multiple components, code reviews, leveraging data/telemetry to make decisions.


• Develop "best-in-class" engineering for our services by ensuring that the services and the components are well-defined and modularized, secure, reliable, diagnosable, actively monitored and reusable.


• Improve test coverage for services, organize and implement integration tests, and resolve problem areas.


• Consider testability, portability/monitoring, reliability, and maintainability, and understand when code is ready to be shared and delivered.


• Gain a working understanding of Microsoft as a business and collaborate with mentors and leaders in order to contribute to cohesive, end-to-end experiences for our users.


• Focus on customer/partner needs through a data driven approach
  
  Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python


• OR equivalent experience


• Passion for mentoring junior engineers.


• _Ability to generate clarity in ambiguous situations _


• Passion for and ability to quickly understand emerging technologies


• _Solid communication and collaboration skills _


• Self-motivated, proactive, and results-oriented _. Ability to quickly ramp up, understand complex problems, and create solutions across many products _ _ _


Other Requirements

Candidates must be able to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements that 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., Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science


• OR related technical field AND technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript,OR Python


• OR Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python


• OR equivalent experience