Principal Software Engineer

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.

• Design and implement scalable, reliable, maintainable services
• Demonstrate strategic understanding of the timing and rationale for design choices
• Consistently contribute key ideas to the product or service design and vision
• 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

• Solid understanding of Object-Oriented Programming and common Design Patterns
• 10+ years of relevant software development experience and proficient in C# (Java or C++)
• Ability to communicate technical details clearly across organizational boundaries
• Experience in DevOps to maintain live services and/or application frameworks
• Cloud and services experience, with Azure cloud experience highly desirable
• Analytical skills with systematic and structured approach to software design
• Passion for building highly scalable, highly reliable services
• Experience with or exposure to Agile and iterative development processes
• 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
• 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

• 401k matching
• Health insurance
• Flight privileges
• Discounts on products and services
• Savings and investments
• Maternity and paternity leave
• Generous time away
• Giving programs
• Opportunities to network and connect

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances.