Principal Software Engineer

Overview

The 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 Copilot, Agents, and Platform (CAP) 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 Principal 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

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.

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.

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. You will provide technical vision and hands-on leadership, solve complex problems, influence cross-functional teams, and drive architectural and organizational transformation across the stack.

You will also help shape how our team works in the age of AI by championing responsible AI-assisted engineering practices that improve developer productivity, accelerate learning and delivery, and strengthen quality. Aligned with Leadership vision, you will foster an AI-first engineering culture that enables the team to innovate, collaborate, and deliver greater customer and business impact.

You will build new experiences, lead experimentation, and use data to make informed decisions about release candidates. This role offers an opportunity to make a meaningful impact in a high-growth area for CAP while helping shape the engineering organization’s technical direction, culture, and values.

We are builders, explorers, and connectors and we are looking for a like-minded Software Engineers who thrives on driving big ideas from spark to scale. We are looking for candidates with a growth mindset, and someone who fosters collaboration with teammates and partners.

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.

Responsibilities

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.

Shapes how the team works in the age of AI by championing responsible AI-assisted engineering practices, driving adoption across the development lifecycle, and measuring improvements in developer productivity, quality, learning, and delivery speed.

Required/Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor'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 Python.

OR equivalent experience.

Additional or preferred qualifications

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

• 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 Python.
• OR 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 Python.
• Understanding of GitHub Copilot will be an added advantage.
• Experience with product-led growth, experimentation platforms, product analytics and instrumentation, or activation and adoption funnels for high-scale products; familiarity with Microsoft 365 or Copilot scenarios and GitHub Copilot is a plus.
• Native Android/iOS/Windows/macOS experiences using modern C++, Java, Kotlin, Objective-C, Swift and platform-specific frameworks OR equivalent experience.

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This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. 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.

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