Do you like to build scalable UX platforms? Does designing and delivering delightful features to over 1 billion Windows devices worldwide in a span of hours sound exciting to you? Are you looking for an opportunity to provide architectural leadership in building UX experiences for Windows?
The SPACE team is core to the next wave of cloud innovation in Windows. We focus on growing customer lifetime value by building delightful experiences that are cloud-driven and grounded in data. Our teams’ products and services are built on modern development approaches. We take pride in investing in the platform that we use to build our products, ship them with confidence while keeping our customers safe and engaged.
We are looking for a Principal Softare Engineer who has passion for native platforms (UX and system). This person should model success using principles of accountability, clarity, and inclusion.
Qualifications:
Required/Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including C++
- OR equivalent experience
- 2+ years of architectural leadership experience.
Additional or Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 10+ years technical engineering experience with coding in C++
- OR Master’s Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in C++
- OR equivalent experience.
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:
- You will be coding/building new platforms and enhancing existing ones to meet the needs of business.
- You will be providing architectural guidance to a team that builds user experiences and platforms in Windows.
- Stay accountable towards the team’s objectives and key results.
- Partner with Product Management to deeply understand customer needs.
- Demonstrate engineering excellence through commitment to quality execution, testing, maintainability, continuous improvement, and customer empathy.
- Lead design discussions and drive team’s technical strategy.
- Provide technical feedback and guidance to your team through architecture and code reviews, with a demonstrated commitment to learning and improvement.
- Drive excellence in creating detailed execution plans and holding yourself and team accountable for delivering results.
- Find opportunities for collaboration across teams, works on cross-team commitments, and achieves scale by enabling the work of others across Microsoft.