Principal Software Engineer

Are you a customer-obsessed, AI-curious problem-solver who thrives in an inclusive, collaborative global team? The Azure CXP team’s mission is to transform Microsoft Cloud customers into fans. Through our deep engineering engagements with customers and teams across Microsoft, we analyze and amplify customer needs and drive the vision to improve Cloud quality, security, and reliability. Our culture of growth mindset and empowerment are central to who we are and how we work. 

The focus of our Azure CXP Engineering is to build extensible platforms, connected customer experiences (CX), enable digital transformation, and improve customer outcomes. Our top-level objectives include winning customer satisfaction by providing the help they need and reducing customer challenges. Our team believes in living the core Microsoft values of Respect, Integrity and Accountability. 

We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer with a passion for delivering well-designed, scalable, and reliable software for large-scale projects. As part of this role, you will collaborate closely with multiple teams across Microsoft to deliver key customer solutions and the technology to support them.

You will be a meaningful part of a team that values diversity of thought and recognizes everyone for their personal strengths and desire to learn and grow.  

Every day, our customers stake their business and reputation on our cloud. You can help #AzCXP provide our customers with the world-class cloud services they need to succeed. 

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

As a Principal Software Engineer, you will help develop a world-class customer-centered engineering infrastructure. We are in a unique position to empower all of Azure to make precise data driven decisions with the data our services manage. You will work with Azure CXP Program Managers, Data Scientists, other Azure engineering teams as well as the Field and Support organizations to define and deliver critical microservices and automation required for all the rapidly expanding programs in Azure CXP.

This role provides an exciting opportunity to work with experts across all levels of Azure’s cloud technology stack. Some responsibilities include:

• Design and develop high quality, robust and manageable products and service that deliver immediate customer business value and can evolve to meet future business needs.
• Provide technical leadership across service fundamentals including reliability, scalability, maintainability, and performance.
• Oversees, influences, and owns design discussions for the overall system architecture of entire products/solutions that are deeply complex and often ambiguous.
• May own creating proposals for architecture and design documents and may lead testing of proposed solutions. Shares and acts on findings from investigations, owns design decisions, and oversees the less experienced team members.
• Leads by example and mentors others to produce extensible and maintainable code used across the company. 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. Creates and applies metrics to drive the quality and stability of code, as well as appropriate coding patterns and best practices.
• Provides technical leadership during code reviews for a solution/product area to assure it meets quality standards, is reliable and accurate, and is appropriate for the scale of the product feature. Ensures coding standards are followed.
• Collaborate with partner teams to drive technological integration and product adoption.
  Mentor engineers

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