Principal Software Engineer

Join us to build the future of end user computing! Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows 365 are fundamentally changing the nature of personal computing, pushing computing to the cloud and making remote experiences better, more secure, and easier to manage than local. We are experiencing exponential growth given the explosion of hybrid work and the changing security landscape and are rapidly growing our team to help scale our product and build new and innovative AI powered experiences. 

As a Principal Software Engineer on this team, you will get an amazing opportunity to demonstrate leadership at both technology and business level. You will be part of a diverse, fast growing and agile team working with a motivated team of engineers and product managers. Our culture is more like a startup – we will do what is necessary to help customers be successful, move fast, and have fun building meaningful products and services!

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.

Responsibilities

This Principal Software Engineer opportunity will allow you to make a broad positive impact that will include building appealing developer experiences, solving complex algorithmic problems, forging real-time troubleshooting tools via complex data models, streamlining our monitoring systems, evolving our metrics to enable large scale performance optimizations, or even enabling intricate business/engineering processes.  

As the Principal Software Engineer on the Windows Cloud Experiences team, you will be responsible for:  

• Partners with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a set of scenarios.
• Leads efforts and discussions for the architecture of aspects of products/solutions (e.g., design, cost). Creates proposals for architecture and design documents and leads testing of hypotheses and proposed solutions.
• Leads by example and mentors’ others to produce extensible and maintainable code used across products. Leads efforts to optimize, debug, refactor, and reuse code to improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI). Identifies best practices and coding patterns and provides deep expertise in the coding and validation strategy.
• Leads efforts for creation and conducting of experimentation to determine the effectiveness of changes, monitors developments for prototyping and testing products, interprets results, and decides on next steps or ship decision from results.
• Research, architect, develop and deliver solutions in an evolving agile development environment.
• Design and develop large scale distributed software services and solutions. 
• Adhere to and drive modern software engineering practices through design and code reviews. 
• System design through well-defined interfaces across multiple components, code reviews,  leveraging 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, diagnosable, actively monitored and reusable. 
• Improve test coverage for services, organize and implement integration tests, and resolve problem areas. 
• Consider testability, portability/monitoring, reliability, and maintainability, and understand when code is ready to be shared and delivered. 
• Gain a working understanding of Microsoft as a business and collaborate with mentors and leaders in order to contribute to cohesive, end-to-end experiences for our users. 
• Focus on customer/partner needs through a data driven approach
• Troubleshoot and optimize automation, reliability and monitoring for Live Site. 
• Other
• Embody our Culture and 

  Apply for this role

  Generate a tailored application kit with a matched cover letter, interview prep, and CV highlights — in under 60 seconds.

  Apply Now →Generate Application Kit

  Free account required — sign up in 30s

  Report an issue

  Company

  Microsoft

  View company profile →