Principal Software Engineer - CTJ - Poly

Overview

Do you have a passion for large-scale services and working with some of Microsoft’s most critical customers? We’re looking for a Software Engineer II with the right mix of software development, on-line services experience, and passion for quality to envision, design, and deliver Microsoft 365 government cloud service offerings.

Microsoft 365 is at the center of Microsoft’s cloud first, devices first strategy as it brings together cloud versions of our most trusted communication and collaboration products like Exchange, SharePoint, and Teams with our cross-platform desktop suites and mobile apps. The Microsoft 365 Sovereign Cloud team works with Microsoft’s largest government customers to deliver features that meet their specific needs and enable cloud adoption. As you would expect, our customers have the highest expectations for feature quality, security, reliability, availability, and performance.
The software engineering team provides leadership, direction, and accountability for application architecture, system design, and end-to-end implementation. As a Software Engineer II, you will identify and deliver software improvements using your expertise in software development, complexity analysis, and scalable system design. Collaboration skills will be required to work closely with other engineering teams to ensure services/systems are highly stable and performant, meeting the expectations of our government customers and users.
At Microsoft, we can offer you great teams, exciting challenges, and a fun place to work. The work environment empowers you to have a positive impact on millions of end users.

The right candidate for this job (is):
-Passionate about distributed systems and working with highly scalable services.
-Enjoys new technological challenges and is motivated to solve them.
-Excited about making better software and continuously improving the development, integration, and deployment processes.
-Self-starter who thrives in a bottoms-up, fast-paced, highly technical environment.
-Effective collaborator, experienced in creating technical partnerships across teams.

Unwavering passion for meeting customer demands and delivering a dial tone service.

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.

Responsibilities
Technical Knowledge and Domain-Specific Expertise

-Demonstrates expertise in distributed systems design, interactions between cloud technology layers and components, common dependencies at scale, and the code that defines infrastructures. Can identify and recommend configurations optimal of cloud technology solutions and modify the code base that defines systems or cloud technologies to improve the reliability and operability of supported products with minimal guidance from other engineers.
-Develops an understanding of the code, features, and operations of specific products at scale as required to contribute to incremental improvements in product availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and/or performance; participates in on-boarding, code/design reviews, and regular meetings with the engineering teams that develop and/or manage those products.-Researches and maintains an awareness in industry trends, advances in distributed systems and cloud technologies, new tools, and/or processes for maintaining and improving product availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and/or performance. Contributes to the implementation of new solutions within their team by identifying ways they can be applied to solve persistent problems.
Contributions to Development and Design

-Leverages technical expertise in large scale distributed systems and specific products, as well as objective insights drawn from analyses of production telemetry data to suggest changes or add-ons to product features or code to improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of product components or features supported by their team.
-Develops and tests basic changes to optimize code and improve the observability, reliability and operability of a defined range of platform, system, or product components or features with direction from other engineers.
-Engages with product engineering teams by participating code/design reviews, regular meetings, on-call rotations and incident responses throughout product development and operations cycles; leverages technical expertise on underlying systems/platforms and insights drawn from engagements with product engineering teams and telemetry analyses to propose potential im