Microsoft Teams is a unified communication and collaboration platform that combines chat, video meetings and apps. Teams is a ground up product, completely built on Azure cloud platform and cutting-edge Web technologies, serving millions of users world-wide, at scale. We are seeking a Principal Software Engineer focused on the Teams platform with a focus on API platform to help design our next-generation programmability and API interfaces within Microsoft Teams & M365.

This role involves being part of an exciting journey in redefining workplace productivity solutions, that scale to our worldwide user base, across industry verticals and multitude of platforms and devices. In this position, you will be empowered to make product-wide technical decisions and directly impact the outcomes for this flagship product, working in a dynamic and collaborative environment. 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.

Are you interested in working for one of the most exciting product groups in Microsoft? You will be building solutions that leverage state-of-the-art technologies to deliver the next evolution in collaboration and teamwork. Microsoft Teams Developer Platform provides exciting opportunities in building resilient, highly scalable services for Microsoft Teams Graph APIs and great Microsoft Teams Developer Experience (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/platform/concepts/build-and-test/teams-developer-portal) that meet the needs of an ever growing user and developer base of the fastest growing product in Microsoft's history.

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

• Establish long term technical strategy and direction for key Platform Initiatives. 

• Create and improve architecture designs for complex end to end scenarios that involve multiple teams and services. 

• Drive the engineering culture to strive for scalable architecture, operational excellence, growth mindset, and being customer obsessed. 

• Influence, lead, and collaborate effectively across leadership, teams, and organizations to drive outcomes.

• Define the next generation of Teams services infrastructure and routing design and drive its implementation.

• Troubleshoot complex infrastructure and network issues and proactively implement methods to reduce recurrence and impact of future incidents

• Develop code, scripts, systems, or platforms that automate complex operations processes (e.g., monitoring, alerting, routing, debugging) at scale.

• Influence and create new designs, architectures, standards and methods for large-scale distributed system.

• Be hand-on executing projects of high value and impact to the platform.

• Deliver features end-to-end from development to deployment

• Fosters a healthy and inclusive team environment.

• Embody our Culture  (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/about/corporate-values) and  Values (https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/culture)  

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related technical field AND 6+ years of software platform architecture experience and technical engineering experience with coding in Object Oriented languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python

• OR equivalent experience.

• 5+ years of experience building commercial-grade, high-availability services.

• 5+ years of experience guiding projects from planning through execution and service operations.

Other or Preferred Qualifications

• Analytical and problem-solving skills, with a history of navigating significant technical challenges, emphasizing a continuous release mindset and service operation in a dynamic environment.

• Ability to lead in a fast-paced, customer focused, and data-driven environment.

• A decisive, self-directed, collaborative, and innovative approach to projects.

• Demonstrated working knowledge on cloud computing / Azure / AWS / GCP.

• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.

Software Engineering IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $137,600 - $267,000 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $180,400 - $294,000 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until June 3, 2024.

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Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html) .