Principal Software Engineer

Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND technical engineering experience with any object-oriented coding languages including, but not limited to C++, C#, Java, or Python
• OR equivalent experience

Nice to haves:

• Designing, developing, and operating backed services experience.
• Ability to communicate technical details clearly across organizational boundaries.
• Experience in DevOps to maintain live services and/or application frameworks.
• Cloud and services experience, with Azure cloud experience highly desirable, as well as experience with or exposure to Agile and iterative development processes.
• Excellent analytical skills with a systematic and structured approach to software design.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Design, develop, and operate features for large-scale distributed software services and solutions.
• Adhere to modern software engineering practices through design and code.
• Write clean and optimized code, improve test coverage for services, organize and implement integration tests, and resolve problem areas.
• Focus on customer/partner needs through a data-driven approach.
• Develop "best-in-class" engineering for services by ensuring that the services and components are well-defined and modularized, secure, reliable, diagnosable, actively monitored and reusable.

Perks and Benefits:

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.