Principal Sofware Engineer

The Experience plus Devices (E+D) Growth team is seeking engineers to help accelerate the adoption of Copilot and Microsoft 365. Our team is uniquely positioned at the strategic epicenter of E+D for revolutionizing the productivity business by delivering embedded experiences across the Microsoft 365 suite (Teams, Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, etc.) that drive the growth of our company's cutting-edge generative AI solutions across the commercial and consumer spectrum. Our team tackles technical challenges across a diverse tech stack, with the solutions we deliver having a direct impact on the bottom line of the business. This role requires strategic and creative thinking, as well as a passion for building technical solutions that address customer needs.

We are a modern engineering organization that embodies industry best practices in Product-Led Growth (PLG). We are data-informed, hypothesis-driven, and rigorous in measuring outcomes to ensure undeniable customer and business impact. We collaborate closely with industry-leading PMs, designers, data scientists, user researchers, and marketers to build deep customer insights that inform the design of experiences used by hundreds of millions of people every day. We partner with teams across the company to deliver world-class services, and we create experiences that connect with customers across Microsoft products. We play a direct role in driving business growth and framing our business value to end users and our vibrant community of fans. We are looking for a Software Engineer to join us.

Building a successful team involves creating an inclusive workplace where all people and ideas are welcome. We invest in the health of our team and take "how we work" as seriously as the impact we have on customers and the business. You don't need to know everything when you join our team; just bring your growth mindset and willingness to learn, and we will provide mentorship and career growth to help you succeed.

The team's focus is on following 3 main areas:

• Full-Stack: Develop end-to-end features using React/TypeScript frontends paired with C#/.NET REST or GraphQL APIs and scalable data models—built to support millions of daily users.
• Backend: Design and scale Azure-hosted services in C#/.NET that handle hundreds of millions of requests daily, with opportunities to lead the adoption of event-driven architectures.
• Client: Deliver high-performance native Android/iOS/Windows/macOS experiences using modern C++, Java, Kotlin, Objective-C, Swift and platform-specific frameworks, enabling contextual Product-Led Growth motions within Microsoft 365 apps.

As a Principal Software Engineer you will play a critical role in driving the adoption and monetization of Microsoft 365 Copilot through Product-Led Growth methodologies.

We are seeking a highly driven Principal Software Engineer to lead with technical vision, hands-on execution, and a strong sense of accountability. This role is ideal for an engineering leader who thrives on solving complex problems, influencing cross-functional teams, and driving architectural and organizational transformation. You'll operate across the entire stack, influence technical direction, and help shape the culture and values of the engineering organization.

The position require building new experiences, running experimentation and making data driven decision to make a ship candidates. The role will provide opportunities for impact in a high growth area for E+D.

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.

• Partners with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a set of scenarios.
• Leads identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.
• Leads by example and mentors others to produce extensible and maintainable code used across products.
• Leverages 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.
• Holds accountability as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI), mentoring engineers across products/solutions, working on-call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions.
• Proactively seeks new knowledge and adapts to new trends, technical solutions, and patterns that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale and shares knowledge with other engineers.

Required Qualifications:

• Master's Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 8+ years software industry experience
• OR Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 10+ years software industry experience
• OR equivalent experience.
• Exceptional skills in influencing and aligning diverse stakeholders across product, design, marketing, research, and business disciplines.
• Ability to think strategically while diving deep into details, you can balance big-picture vision with day-to-day execution.
• Experience working with AI/ML-powered experiences, platform services, or large-scale subscription businesses is a plus.
• Passion for customer-centric innovation, operational excellence, and building inclusive, high-performance team cultures.

Other Requirements:

Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:

• Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 8+ years software industry experience
• OR Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 10+ years software industry experience
• OR equivalent experience.

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.