Principal Engineer

1 Month ago • 12 Years + • DevOps • Backend Development

Job Summary

Job Description

The Principal Engineer will be responsible for designing and implementing scalable, reliable, and maintainable cloud services for Microsoft's Office 365 and Windows platforms. This role requires a deep understanding of cloud development (Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud), object-oriented programming, and design patterns. Responsibilities include conducting business reviews, operating production services, collaborating with other engineering teams, and ensuring service stability and performance. The ideal candidate will have 12+ years of relevant experience, proficiency in C# (or Java/C++), experience with DevOps, and strong communication skills. They will be involved in the full lifecycle of features, from conception to delivery, and contribute to product design and vision. The role involves working within an agile environment with geographically distributed teams.
Must have:
  • 12+ years software development experience
  • Proficient in C# (Java or C++)
  • Cloud development expertise (Azure)
  • DevOps experience
  • Strong communication & collaboration skills
Good to have:
  • Experience with Azure Services
  • Multithreading and asynchronous processing
  • CI/CD pipeline using agile practices
Perks:
  • Industry leading healthcare
  • Educational resources
  • Discounts on products and services
  • Savings and investments
  • Maternity and paternity leave
  • Generous time away
  • Giving programs
  • Networking opportunities

Job Details

Overview

The Data Security team’s mission is to building cloud solutions to support premium features that provide security, compliance, data governance, data loss prevention, and more, in a fully integrated manner from services to clients of Office 365 as well as Windows. We create global scale services to transport, store, secure and manage some of the most sensitive data on the planet and build our services on top of Azure, Exchange and other cloud platforms, and our experiences in Office applications like Outlook. The IDC arm of the team is expanding substantially and is looking for talented and highly motivated engineers. This is an excellent opportunity for anyone who has, or wants to build, expertise in cloud distributed systems, or in security and compliance, or both. 

 

Team will be building cloud solutions meeting scales that few companies in the industry are required to support, that leverage state of the art technologies to deliver holistic protection to a planet scale user base. Office 365 is the industry leader in hosted productivity suites and boasts to be the fastest growing business at Microsoft with more than 100 million seats hosted in multiple data centers across the globe. TheSCIM Engineering team provides leadership, direction and accountability for application architecture, Cloud design, infrastructures development and end to end implementation.You will independently determine and develop architectural approaches and Infrastructure solutions, conduct business reviews, and operate our production services. Strong collaboration skills will be required to work closely with other engineering teams to ensure services/systems are highly stable and performant and meet the expectations of internal and external customers and users. 

Qualifications

Expertise/Experience 

  • Solid understanding of Object-Oriented Programming and common Design Patterns 
  • 12+ years of relevant software development experience and proficient in C# (Java or C++) 
  • In-depth knowledge of cloud development (Azure, AWS, Google Cloud) 
  • Experience developing and shipping Azure Services is a plus 
  • Experience and involvement with DevOps is a plus 
  • Effective communication/collaboration skills, ability to deal with ambiguity and prioritize issues 
  • Collaborating with technical partners to deliver end-to-end solutions 
  • Experience with multithreading and asynchronous processing 
  • Experience with CI/CD pipeline using agile practices 
  • Ability to quickly ramp up on multiple technology areas  

Interpersonal skills 

  • Confident and articulate in expressing ideas to a mixed audience with varying views and challenges 
  • Cultural sensitivity and a proven ability to work with teams and partners across multiple geographies. 
  • A sense of personal ownership is required, together with the ability to deliver to tight deadlines while managing internal stakeholder expectations 
  • Self-motivated and organized to deliver results  

Essential qualifications 

  • BS or MS degree in Computer Science or Engineering OR equivalent years of work experience. 
  • Minimum of 12 years of applicable work experience 

 

Responsibilities

We are looking for someone who is a highly motivated, self-starter who thrives in a bottoms-up, fast paced, highly technical environment, has a strong customer focus and understands the importance of Live Site, has a demonstrated ability to establish and manage relationships across organizational boundaries, has proven experience dealing with large scale data architecture, operational architecture and or network Architecture and proven experience creating distributed systems tools of moderate-to-high complexity. You will be responsible to perform investigations and investments in complex areas; designing and delivering features end to end - including system architecture, code, deployment, scale, performance and quality, from conception to delivery. 

  • Design and implement scalable, reliable, maintainable services 
  • Demonstrate strategic understanding of the timing and rationale for design choices, within the scope of work. 
  • Consistently contribute key ideas to the product or service design and vision that meets the customer's needs 
  • Drive design reviews across the team and apply expertise in available technologies 
  • Apply metrics to drive the quality and stability of code 
  • Have a sense of pride, commitment, and personal accountability for the service quality, completeness and resulting user experience for the life of the product or service 
  • Work closely with geographically distributed team, including Product Managers and developers, to drive key improvements in backend Engineering System. 

 

We are looking for someone who shares our passion for building great software for enterprises. You will work in a forward-looking product as part of an agile, collaborative, and cross-discipline team. 

 

As a Senior SWE, you will responsible for all aspects of a feature area including design, implementation, performance and quality. You will take such feature areas from ideation to successful global roll out. You will act as a code and design reviewer and mentors other engineers. You must be self-driven, proactive, and results-oriented. 

 

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.
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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