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Posted date: Aug 15, 2024
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Category: Software Engineering
Location: Redmond, WA
Estimated salary: $215,800
Range: $137,600 - $294,000
Employment type: Full-Time
Travel amount: 25.0%
Work location type: Up to 100% work from home
Role: Individual Contributor
Description
Do you see yourself as a coach, a collaborator, and a customer-focused engineer? Would you be excited to build technology that helps deliver productivity and communication services to hundreds of millions of customers? Do you care deeply about fostering a great team? We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer for the M365 Core who embraces these roles and is excited by this technology, and who embraces the cultural values of inclusion and belonging and feels empowered to do the following:Coach – Work with each person on your team to help them to do their best work and grow. You define and foster an identity for the team that includes a reputation for high quality, reliability, and inclusivity.
Guide – Define the business goals for the team then create and execute on a plan to meet those goals. You will build a vision for changing the underlying technology of the service and guide the team through landing it while maintaining the availability of the live site.
Collaborate – Strive to understand the motivations and goals of the teams we’re working with and work towards a better solution together.
Engineer – Care deeply about the availability, resilience, latency, scalability and cost of the critical 5-9s service we are running. You are excited about making major changes to the service while maintaining availability and latency
As a Principal Software Engineer in this team for the AI (artifical intelligence) software + hardware platform performance analysis and optimization, you will get an amazing opportunity to demonstrate technical leadership. You will be part of a inclusive, fast growing and agile team working with a motivated team of engineers and product managers. Our culture is that we will do what is necessary to help customers be successful, move fast, and have fun building meaningful products and services!
Microsoft 365 is the fastest growing cloud services business in Microsoft. M365 brings together cloud versions of our most trusted communications and collaboration products like Exchange, SharePoint, OneDrive and Skype with the desktop suite of Office products in an always up-to-date integrated service offering. Since its launch, the service has made it easier for millions of information workers across the world in small, medium, and large enterprises to use the best of Microsoft’s business productivity solutions via the cloud. The service now extends the same capability to consumer communication and collaboration products.
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.
You’ll be working with product/program managers, engineering teams (combining remote teams and local teams) and customers to drive the AI software + hardware performance and efficiency which supports large scale cloud deployment. Drive software/hardware AI platform efficiency with deep-dive performance analysis, profiling, and optimization with low level software such as OS and below running on various hardware platforms to improve and optimize the throughput/IO (input/output), memory etc. resources. Lead and build E2E (end to end) capacity and resource utilization and management system. Establish relationships with partners within Microsoft to bring innovation to new and existing products. Foster a culture of inclusivity and disciplined software engineering practices to deliver business value, guided by data. Embody our Culture and Values
Qualifications
Required/Minimum QualificationsBachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or PythonOR equivalent experience.6+ years of experience designing and implementing low level system software such as OS (operating system) kernel, driver, virtualization, cloud compute, storage, networking or etc.2+ years of experience with software performance tuning, system performance analysis and optimization on various hardware platforms such as CPU (central processing unit), GPU (graphics processing unit), FPGA (field programmable gate array) or etc. Hands-on debugging and performance analysis skills, familiar with performance tuning tools, analysis methodologies and optimization approaches.Other Requirement
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.
Additional or Preferred Qualifications
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science OR related technical field AND 10+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, OR PythonOR Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or PythonOR equivalent experience.4+ years of experience with software performance tuning, system performance analysis and optimization on various hardware platforms such as CPU (central processing unit), GPU (graphics processing unit), FPGA (field programmable gate array) or etc. Experience with generative AI workloads (e.g., Co-pilot etc.) development, debugging or performance analysis.Knowledge about AI workloads performance characteristics and challenges, especially with cloud deployment. 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 September 5, 2024.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.
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