The M365 Core App and Data Platform is a massively scaled service that serves as the compute and data platform for the core M365 offerings. Our services help companies, schools, governments, and individuals, representing more than a billion users all over the world get their work done every day.

We are looking for a highly motivated, skilled, and innovative Principal Software Architect with experience building and operating large scale data systems to help us imagine and build the next version of our platform. Our vision is to make it easy for builders everywhere to provide transformative insights on the rich M365 data. As an architect, you will have the opportunity to work across many engineering teams and design and influence service architecture across the broad platform.

If the idea of working on one of the biggest data platforms in the world and knowing that your work impacts people everywhere, this could be the role for you! Our team values different perspectives and makes sure all voices are heard. Healthy work life balance is important to us, and we are a team that works hard but also has fun.

We seek engineers who are passionate about building complete, production-quality software services, with a scalable and sustainable architecture and implementation, with high performance over large data sets, and with low latency and high availability.

Responsibilities

• Architect, design and develop large scale distributed software services and solutions in collaboration with teammates.

• Design services with a strong focus on high availability and scalability, robustness, and observability.

• Build software prototypes and conduct experiments to evaluate alternative architectures.

• Take end-to-end responsibility for the development, observability, quality, testing, and production readiness of the services you build.

• Adhere to and drive modern software engineering practices through code and design reviews, and by using data/telemetry to make decisions

• Develop “best-in-class” engineering for our services by ensuring that the services and the components are: well-defined and modularized, secure, reliable, reusable, diagnosable, and actively monitored

• Gain an understanding of Microsoft businesses and collaborate with mentors and leaders to contribute to cohesive, end-to-end experiences for our users & customers

• Stay educated on existing and state of the art technologies, and do POCs to evaluate technology fits for customer needs

• Grow and mentor less experienced developers.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python

• OR equivalent experience.

• 8+ years experience designing highly available large scale web services and distributed systems

Preferred Qualifications:

• Demonstrated history of engineering and product expertise. Several years of experience building software for customers, using both Microsoft and non-Microsoft technologies

• Proven track record of pursuing and delivering innovative insights that translate to value generation

• Proven ability to navigate the company and to influence and inspire peers in engineering and in broad product development

• Ability to pursue breakthrough thinking by assessing established and emerging through leadership

• Understanding and appreciation for software architecture, usability, and design

• 12+ years of experience programming in C++, C#, Java or HTML/CSS/JS

• Experience with JavaScript/HTML/CSS/XAML a plus

Software Engineering IC6 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $158,500 - $276,600 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $202,800 - $304,200 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

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