Principal Software Engineer

Have you ever wanted to be an integral part of a product that touches the lives of millions of users worldwide? Are you passionate about designing and building the next gen collaboration and teamwork experiences? Would you be interested in working for a startup group within Microsoft? If you have an emphatic yes to all the above, we would love to connect with you. 

We are the Skype Core Services team responsible for delivering mission critical services to provide client applications access to multitude of Office 365 Core Services including our Intelligent Conversation and Communications Cloud. 

As a Principal Software Engineer, you will be building resilient, highly scalable, highly available and highly performant services that leverage state of the art technologies to deliver the next gen collaboration and teamwork experiences. We have a broad set of technology areas to challenge you, these include but are not limited to Storage, Cache, Authentication, Azure, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Security, Real-Time Communication, Information Protection, Engineering Infra etc. A unique opportunity to be part of a dynamic team culture that encourages learning, collaboration, and making bold bets. We are looking for passionate engineers to join us, to learn, and deliver an amazing impact to our business and community with solid innovation and cutting-edge technology. 

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

• Drive architecture process across the organization, incl. communicating across geo-distributed diverse teams and creating forums for wider engineering audience to share and collect feedback on specific architectural challenges. 
• Lead identification of dependencies, development of design documents for the product, application, service or platform and lead the identification of other teams and technologies that will be leveraged, how they will interact, and when one's own system may provide support to others.  
• Identify best practices and coding patterns and provide 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. 
• Leverage subject-matter expertise of cross-product features with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to drive multiple group's project plans, release plans, and work items. Breaks down long-term project vision into milestones as part of an overall roadmap.  
• Ensure engineering solutions meet all requirements including performance, resiliency, privacy, security, and compliance. 
• Ensure architectures are scalable not only in terms of traffic but also in terms of engineering organization implementing the architecture so that growing geo-distributed teams can work in parallel on addressing the business requirements with high efficiency and good developer experience. 
• Lead by example and mentor others to produce extensible and maintainable code used across products. Work across the broader organization to drive