Principal Software Engineer

The E+D Growth Team's role is to help grow our user and customer base so we can fulfill Microsoft's mission of empowering every person and organization on the planet to achieve more. We do this through Product-Led Growth motions that we develop, facilitate, and partner with teams throughout Microsoft to deliver so we can bring more of Microsoft's software - across Microsoft 365, Windows, and elsewhere - to more users and convert those users into customers. We work with every segment of the market including consumers and businesses of all sizes, helping to facilitate improved engagement, retention, and acquisition for the wide array of products inside of the Experiences and Devices organization.

Lead the next wave of growth for Microsoft's most transformative products.

As part of the E+D Growth team, you will help define and deliver our Product-Led Growth (PLG) strategy across Windows, Office, and beyond crafting magical, AI-powered experiences that hundreds of millions of people rely on every day.

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 methodologies.

We are seeking a highly driven Principal Software Engineer to lead with technical vision, hands-on execution, and a strong sense of accountability. This role is ideal for an engineering leader who thrives on solving complex problems, influencing cross-functional teams, and driving architectural and organizational transformation. You’ll operate across the entire stack, influence technical direction, and help shape the culture and values of the engineering organization.

The position require building new experiences, running experimentation and making data driven decision. The role will provide opportunities for impact in a high growth area for E+D.

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.

In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.

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.
  
  

Qualifications

Required 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
• OR equivalent experience.
• Exceptional skills in influencing and aligning diverse stakeholders across product, design, marketing, research, and business disciplines.
• Ability to think strategically while diving deep into details, you can balance big-picture vision with day-to-day execution.
• Experience working with AI/ML-powered experiences, platform services, or large-scale subscription businesses is a plus.
• Passion for customer-centric innovation, operational excellence, and building inclusive, high-performance team cultures.
  

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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.
  
  

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, 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. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.