Principal Software Engineer

Microsoft Teams is core to Microsoft's vision for intelligent communications and productivity pane into the modern workplace. We are fast becoming the hub for teamwork in Office 365, with hundreds of thousands of organizations and tens of millions of users across the globe using Teams. Microsoft Teams now has more than 320 million daily users, cementing it as the fastest growing business application in Microsoft history.
 
We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer to provide technical leadership and drive implementation of client release infrastructure, validation gating and support feature flighting across multiple platforms, devices, and operating systems. Our infrastructure allows feature teams to deliver a new feature to millions of users in the order of minutes in an automated fashion.
 
The team collaboration space is evolving through rapid growth. People can learn about new technologies and quickly grow their careers. Our culture is inclusive, casual, and of high energy; our team members come from diverse backgrounds, thrive through teamwork, and are grounded in the needs of our customers.

About us:

• We’re a savvy group of generalizing specialists; we blend years of software engineering expertise with some of the newest and most popular tools, frameworks and methodologies to empower an entire organization to build great software.
• We pride ourselves in building smart systems and tools which make our fellow engineers more productive every day and enables them to ship high quality code to our customer continuously.
• We use Teams to ship Teams. Our tools are integrated into the product itself.

About you:

• You have strong expertise with CI/CD practices and have an opinion on how to apply them at scale.
• You have a strong sense of craftsmanship in the solutions you create and an idea about how software should and should not be built & released.
• You believe that a task worth doing is a task worth automating.
• You seek out opportunities to learn new skills and technologies.
• You think ahead and build for the future and aren’t afraid of ambiguous challenges.
• You have a history of driving successful cross-organizational initiatives.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science (or related technical field) AND proficent technical engineering experience with coding in Object Oriented languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, TypeScript/JavaScript, or Python.
• Experience with ownership of projects to meet deadlines, and collaborating with stakeholders, and ensuring that the product meets quality standards.
  
• Experience collaborating with other teams to craft overall product vision and strategies.
  
• Experience mentoring and coaching junior engineers.

Other Requirements:

Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements 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.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with cloud services, Azure PaaS & Services.
• Experience developing and maintaining engineering infrastructure tools/bots.
  
• Experience with ownership of shipping features and with Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Deployment (CD) processes.
  
• Experience shaping the technical direction of a project or product, creating a long-term vision, aligning it with business goals, and guiding the team toward successful implementation.

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As a Principal Software Engineer on our team, you would work on, but not be limited to: 

• Design, develop and maintain engineering infrastructure, tools, and services that power the CI/CD for Microsoft Teams across different clients/platforms.  
• Build tools/bots and leverage AI to improve developer productivity, contribute ideas to continuously improve our systems, and drive actionable code and product quality feedback. 
• Champion best practices, tools, and processes for a data-driven, quality-focused release of Microsoft Teams as frequently as possible to our customers. 
• Collaborate with key stakeholders to develop overall product vision as well as strategies on how to realize the vision by identifying technical challenges & proposing solutions.
• Embody our culture and values.