Microsoft

Principal Software Engineer--M365 Directory team

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4 days ago
Suzhou, China or Shanghai, ChinaStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Guide stakeholder partnerships to determine user requirements within and across teams.
  • Guide teams in identifying dependencies and developing design documents for products, applications, services, or platforms.
  • Optimize, debug, refactor, and reuse code to improve performance, maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment.
  • Guide multiple groups’ project plans, release plans, and work items in coordination with stakeholders.
  • Act as a technical expert and Designated Responsible Individual, monitor other engineers across product lines, and participate in on-call monitoring.
  • Provide technical direction, drive alignment across teams, mentor engineers, and lead complex initiatives from design through production delivery.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field and 6+ years of technical engineering experience with coding, or equivalent experience.
  • Coding experience in languages including C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
  • Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements, including the Microsoft Cloud background check.
  • Preferred: master’s degree and 8+ years of technical engineering experience, or bachelor’s degree and 12+ years of technical engineering experience, or equivalent experience.
  • Demonstrated technical leadership across teams, including setting technical direction, driving alignment, mentoring engineers, and leading complex initiatives.
  • Experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems, cloud services, databases, or data-intensive platforms.
  • Experience leading architecture, dependency management, implementation, validation, deployment, and production operations across multiple engineering teams.
  • Ability to reason about performance, scalability, availability, consistency, fault tolerance, and disaster recovery.
  • Experience delivering production software with strong security, privacy, testing, observability, and operational-quality practices.
  • Ability to use AI-assisted engineering tools while independently validating correctness, reliability, security, and engineering quality.

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About Microsoft

10,000+ employees

Microsoft develops operating systems, productivity software, cloud services, developer tools, and consumer devices for individuals, enterprises, and governments. Its main products include Windows, Microsoft 365, Azure, Visual Studio/GitHub, Xbox, and LinkedIn; revenue comes from software subscriptions and licenses, cloud consumption, hardware sales, and advertising. Founded in 1975 and headquartered in Redmond, Washington, Microsoft is a public company traded on Nasdaq.

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