Principal Software Engineer

Do you see yourself as a coach, a collaborator, and a customer-focused engineer? Would you be excited to build technology that helps deliver productivity and communication services to hundreds of millions of customers? Do you care deeply about fostering a great team? We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer for the M365 Core who embraces these roles and is excited by this technology, and who embraces the cultural values of inclusion and belonging and feels empowered to do the following: 

Coach – Work with each person on your team to help them to do their best work and grow. You define and foster an identity for the team that includes a reputation for high quality, reliability, and inclusivity. 

Guide –   Define the business goals for the team then create and execute on a plan to meet those goals. You will build a vision for changing the underlying technology of the service and guide the team through landing it while maintaining the availability of the live site. 

Collaborate – Strive to understand the motivations and goals of the teams we’re working with and work towards a better solution together.  

Engineer – Care deeply about the availability, resilience, latency, scalability and cost of the critical 5-9s service we are running. You are excited about making major changes to the service while maintaining availability and latency 

As a Principal Software Engineer in this team for the AI (artifical intelligence) software + hardware platform performance analysis and optimization, you will get an amazing opportunity to demonstrate technical leadership. You will be part of a inclusive, fast growing and agile team working with a motivated team of engineers and product managers. Our culture is that we will do what is necessary to help customers be successful, move fast, and have fun building meaningful products and services! 

Microsoft 365 is the fastest growing cloud services business in Microsoft. M365 brings together cloud versions of our most trusted communications and collaboration products like Exchange, SharePoint, OneDrive and Skype with the desktop suite of Office products in an always up-to-date integrated service offering. Since its launch, the service has made it easier for millions of information workers across the world in small, medium, and large enterprises to use the best of Microsoft’s business productivity solutions via the cloud. The service now extends the same capability to consumer communication and collaboration products. 

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

• You’ll be working with product/program managers, engineering teams (combining remote teams and local teams) and customers to drive the AI software + hardware performance and efficiency which supports large scale cloud deployment. 
• Drive software/hardware AI platform efficiency with deep-dive performance analysis, profiling, and optimization with low level software such as OS and below running on various hardware platforms to improve and optimize the throughput/IO (input/output), memory etc. resources.