Principal Software Engineer

Microsoft Start Content Ecosystem & Growth (CE&G) team is responsible for building a content powerhouse with 7000 active brands worldwide to captivate the attention of our 100M+ daily active users. CE&G is expanding and transforming content corpus from predominantly news to covering a wide range of niche topics. Quality of the content is instrumental to the success of Start feed across a wide range of products like Windows, Edge, Super app, Skype, and Outlook. CE&G ensures the trust and safety of all content leveraging the power of LLMs.

As a Principal Software Engineer on the team, you will be directly impacting billions of users of MS Start. Our mission is to provide safe, high quality and engaging content to the users who utilize our product. We use advanced AI and LLM based techniques to serve high quality content to MS Start users. We are looking for a hands-on team lead to lead platform efforts of CE&G, who is not afraid to explore new ideas and bring the goodness of modern technology to CE&G.

Responsibilities:

• Lead architectural design and development of complex distributed software systems
• Partner across disciplines and teams to deliver highly reliable and scalable products
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to mid-level engineers
• Participate in code reviews and provide feedback
• Deliver high quality, maintainable, performant, and testable code
• Collaborate with product managers, policy experts, operations and partner teams
• Translate requirements into technical specifications and implementable solutions
• Be a proactive thinker and constantly improve production quality

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience
• 4+ years of experience designing and building scalable cloud solutions in distributed systems
• 4+ years of experience building and shipping production quality software or services

Preferred Qualifications:

• Passion in designing and building very large scale distributed systems
• Experience working with Service Fabric or Kubernetes
• Experience with building software systems that apply security best practices
• Drive to improve performance, availability, and reliability of services
• Drive to increase efficiencies through automation

Join Microsoft and be part of a culture that values respect, integrity, and accountability, creating an inclusive environment where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.