Principal Software Engineer
Description For Principal Software Engineer
Join Microsoft's Planner team to revolutionize project management experiences through AI-powered innovations. As a Principal Software Engineer, you'll work on building highly performant, distributed, scalable, and intelligent cloud-based solutions. The role involves designing and developing AI-powered productivity tools that impact millions of users worldwide. You'll be part of a fast-paced, collaborative environment focused on pushing the boundaries of modern productivity. The position offers opportunities to work with cutting-edge technologies in AI, distributed systems, and cloud services, while leading and mentoring team members. Microsoft provides a diverse, inclusive workplace with comprehensive benefits and growth opportunities. The role requires expertise in distributed systems, cloud platforms, and AI technologies, with a focus on delivering high-quality, scalable solutions.
Responsibilities For Principal Software Engineer
- Take end-to-end ownership of critical platform features, from design and implementation to deployment and telemetry analysis
- Design and develop robust services that integrated with other services, ensure high scalability, performance, and reliability
- Partner closely with cross-discipline teams to deliver integrated and customer-focused solutions
- Provide technical leadership, mentoring junior engineers
- Experiment with and adopt modern engineering practices and technologies
- Participate in On-Call rotations to support and debug customer-reported issues
Requirements For Principal Software Engineer
- 10+ years of experience building and shipping production-grade software and services
- Expertise in designing and building distributed systems and high quality and performant cloud services
- Solid experience with server-side development, particularly with .NET-based services and cloud platforms like Azure
- Experience contributing to or leading AI based projects
- Knowledge of prompt engineering, compliance and cost optimization strategies for cloud services
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, Math, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience)
Benefits For Principal Software Engineer
- Industry leading healthcare
- Educational resources
- Discounts on products and services
- Savings and investments
- Maternity and paternity leave
- Generous time away
- Giving programs
- Opportunities to network and connect
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