Come join the PowerPoint Services team as we deliver modern, intelligent experiences that will delight millions of PowerPoint 365 customers powered by cloud services at scale. We are located in heart of Silicon Valley in Mountain View , CA. T he PowerPoint Services team has the responsibility for the design, implementation, and efficient operations of several high scale cloud services deeply integrated into PowerPoint and other Office applications. Join us as a ” Principal Software Engineer – Service Architecture” and be at the forefront of developing scalable cloud services through continuous improvement and innovation.
Qualifications:
Required Qualification:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding using C++ OR C#.
- OR equivalent experience
- 4+ years experience in service architecture in cloud services at internet scale.
- Experience presenting technical topics to executive audiences.
Preferred Qualification:
- 10+ years of software development in cloud services at internet scale
- Full understanding of all aspects of the software development process
- Ability to drive initiatives a cross multiple service teams and across disciplines
- Experience translating business and legal requirements to precise technical requirements is a plus
- Proficiency in system architecture & design , data analysis and problem solving
- Organization and demonstrated ability to lead cross team efforts
- Customer osessed and inclined towards product quality, and service excellence
Software Engineering IC5 – The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $133,600 – $256,800 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 $173,200 – $282,200 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 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 .
Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.
Responsibilities:
Our services have multiple, often competing requirements around COGS, compliance, velocity & reliability. Work closely with service leaders & partners to solve technical challenges. Evolve our services with long-range strategic investments in our service infrastructure. Drive broad adoption of the latest technologies and techniques across our family of services. Help influence and drive significant impact to our service efficiency, reliability, velocity and engineering happiness. Mentor early in career engineers to learn best practices. We also have a great management team with lots of experience to learn from who can help you move your career forward.
Some initiatives that you will help lead include:
Scale & Utilization : Work with individual services teams to improve how we effectively utilize our machine resources . Identify key efficiency opportunities & innovations with potential to impact millions of dollars. Track & drive execution to stay in budget without compromising a world class user experience.
Compliance : Ensure our services meet the compliance requirements of our enterprise and government customers by advocating best practices in privacy, security and reliability.
Service Infrastructure : Evolve our modern service stack with the latest technologies & techniques. Drive broad adoption with proven, measurable impact across all our services . Represent the unique requirements of PowerPoint services to our partners in Office and Azure to drive improvements in to the underlying platform.
Beyond smooth, on time delivery of high impact, cross service investments you will be expected to significantly influence and elevate our individual service team’s proficiency in developing and running world class, at scale services . Proactively spread innovations & techniques horizontally between our service teams and successfully advocate for moving improvements upstream into our platform & service infrastructure to enable broad & rapid adoption across our individual services.