Microsoft Principal Software Engineer/Architect 

United States, Washington 

268629342

The Windows Cloud division is looking for aAs a Principal Software Engineer/Architect in the Cloud Platform team, you will get an amazing opportunity to demonstrate leadership at both business and technology level. You will get to extend your knowledge of cloud compute, hypervisors, desktop virtualization, streaming technologies, and other technical areas including cloud-based management suites. You will be part of a team designing new platform capabilities involving virtualized compute, storage, networking, GPUs, and streaming protocols (such as RDP) for our core products to enhance the value to our customer base. You will also be a part of an agile team working with experienced engineers and product managers that behave more like a technology startup.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • OR equivalent experience
• 6+ years of experience as a software engineer/leader designing, implementing, and shipping cloud services or software products
• 3+ years of experience with distributed systems delivering large-scale, secure, and resilient cloud services
• Experience with web or application development with full-stack (data engineering, micro-service design)

Preferred Qualifications

• Broad experience and track record of a customer advocate and creative problem solver
• Keen interest for mentoring early in career engineers
• Demonstrated communication and collaboration skills
• Broad experience and track record of working across teams to deliver shared solutions to complex problems
• Ability to quickly ramp up, understand complex problems, and create solutions across many products
• Ability to develop standards applicable to service and product reviews and corrective action plans

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until June 17, 2024.

• Lead the technical direction and vision for the architecture, design, and the implementation of cloud platform that scales to provision, manage, and monitor health of millions of cloud-based virtual devices.
• Mentor and help grow a team of talented, diverse software engineers.
• Work across organizations, collaborating with internal partner teams such as Azure Compute, Core OS, Microsoft Security and Identity team, and others.
• Provide leadership for the architecture of secure, distributed, scalable, and resilient micro-services using modern technologies.
• Raise the technical bar, maintain a data and results driven culture, and nurture a high-performance team to build world-class experiences for W365 and AVD end users, ITPros, partners, and operations teams.
• Embody our