Any Developer. Any App. Any Platform. Microsoft is committed to deliver products that empower every developer and every dev team on the planet to achieve more. Come join the team responsible for delivering the Visual Studio family of products. It's an incredibly rich space with many challenging technical problems begging for well-designed, well-executed and innovative solutions. We create modern tools and services that help developers build apps and services for a variety of platforms, including Web, Windows, iOS, Android, Azure and many more. The team builds developer tools - Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code. In a 2018 survey done by stackoverflow.com, Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code were the top 2 most popular development environments and tools. Our tools and services help a wide spectrum of developers all the way from professional developers to middle school students. We create solutions together in a rich, collaborative environment and while we work hard together, work/life
We are looking for a principal software engineer to help us deliver world class tools based in Visual Studio Code that will significantly improve developers' productivity when using web technology to target all platforms. You will have opportunity to partner with other teams across the Visual Studio family, from TypeScript, to innovative collaboration services like Visual Studio Live Share , as well as bringing the power of machine learning to improve customer experience. We want to ensure Visual Studio family of products remain the most productive part of our customer's daily life. You will work
Basic Qualifications: 10+ years of experience developing commercial software and/or service Preferred Qualifications: 12+ years of experience developing commercial software and/or services. Strong design and development experience that includes development in C++/Java/C#/JavaScript, preferably with distributed programming models Passion in building and designing very large-scale and secure systems; prior experience in building large scale online systems is a big plus. The ability to multi-task while balancing short term and long-term needs is essential Demonstrated problem solving and debugging