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!

This Principal Software Engineer opportunity will allow you to make a broad positive impact that will include building appealing developer experiences, solving complex algorithmic problems, forging real-time troubleshooting tools via complex data models, streamlining our monitoring systems, evolving our metrics to enable large scale performance optimizations, or even enabling intricate business/engineering processes.

As the Principal Software Engineer on the Windows Cloud Experiences team, you will be responsible for:

• Partnering with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a set of scenarios.
• Leading efforts and discussions for the architecture of aspects of products/solutions.
• Leading by example and mentoring others to produce extensible and maintainable code used across products.
• Leading efforts for creation and conducting of experimentation to determine the effectiveness of changes.
• Researching, architecting, developing and delivering solutions in an evolving agile development environment.
• Designing and developing large scale distributed software services and solutions.
• Adhering to and driving modern software engineering practices through design and code reviews.
• Improving test coverage for services, organizing and implementing integration tests, and resolving problem areas.
• Gaining a working understanding of Microsoft as a business and collaborating with mentors and leaders.
• Focusing on customer/partner needs through a data driven approach.
• Troubleshooting and optimizing automation, reliability and monitoring for Live Site.

Join us to be part of a team that's shaping the future of cloud computing and remote work experiences!