Principal Software Engineer

Job Description

OverviewThe Data Security teams mission is to build cloud solutions to support premium features that provide security, compliance, data governance, data loss prevention, and more, in a fully integrated manner from services to clients of Office 365 as well as Windows. We create global scale services to transport, store, secure, and manage some of the most sensitive data on the planet and build our services on top of Azure, Exchange, and other cloud platforms, and our experiences in Office applications like Outlook. The IDC arm of the team is expanding substantially and is looking for talented and highly motivated engineers. This is an excellent opportunity for anyone who has, or wants to build, expertise in cloud distributed systems, or in security and compliance, or both.The team builds cloud solutions meeting scales that few companies in the industry are required to support, that leverage state-of-the-art technologies to deliver holistic protection to a planet scale user base. Office 365 is the industry leader in hosted productivity suites and boasts to be the fastest growing business at Microsoft, with more than 100 million seats hosted in multiple data centers across the globe. The SCIM Engineering team provides leadership, direction, and accountability for application architecture, cloud design, infrastructure development, and end-to-end implementation. You will independently determine and develop architectural approaches and infrastructure solutions, conduct business reviews, and operate our production services. Strong collaboration skills will be required to work closely with other engineering teams to ensure services/systems are highly stable and performant and meet the expectations of internal and external customers and users.QualificationsExpertise/Experience

• Solid understanding of Object-Oriented Programming and common Design Patterns
• 15 years of relevant software development experience and proficient in C# (Java)
• In-depth knowledge of cloud development (Azure, AWS, Google Cloud)
• Experience developing and shipping Azure Services is a plus
• Experience and involvement with DevOps is a plus
• Effective communication/collaboration skills, ability to deal with ambiguity and prioritize issues
• Collaborating with technical partners to deliver end-to-end solutions
• Experience with multithreading and asynchronous processing
• Experience with CI/CD pipeline using agile practices
• Ability to quickly ramp up on multiple technology areas.

Interpersonal Skills

• Confident and articulate in expressing ideas to a mixed audience with varying views and challenges
• Cultural sensitivity and a proven ability to work with teams and partners across multiple geographies.
• A sense of personal ownership is required, together with the ability to deliver to tight deadlines while managing internal stakeholder expectations
• Self-motivated and organized to deliver results

Essential Qualifications

• BS or MS degree in Computer Science or Engineering OR equivalent years of work experience.
• Minimum of 15 years of applicable work experience

ResponsibilitiesWe are looking for someone who is a highly motivated, self-starter who thrives in a bottoms-up, fast-paced, highly technical environment, has a strong customer focus, and understands the importance of Live Site. You must have a demonstrated ability to establish and manage relationships across organizational boundaries, proven experience dealing with large scale data architecture, operational architecture, and/or network architecture, and proven experience creating distributed systems tools of moderate-to-high complexity.You will be responsible for performing investigations and investments in complex areas; designing and delivering features end to end - including system architecture, code, deployment, scale, performance, and quality, from conception to delivery.

• Design and implement scalable, reliable, maintainable services
• Demonstrate strategic understanding of the timing and rationale for design choices, within the scope of work.
• Consistently contribute key ideas to the product or service design and vision that meets the customers needs
• Drive design reviews across the team and apply expertise in available technologies
• Apply metrics to drive the quality and stability of code
• Have a sense of pride, commitment, and personal accountability for the service quality, completeness, and resulting user experience for the life of the product or service
• Work closely with a geographically distributed team, including Product Managers and developers, to drive key improvements in backend Engineering System.

We are looking for someone who shares our passion for building great software for enterprises. You will work in a forward-looking product as part of an agile, collaborative, and cross-discipline team. As a Principal SWE, you will be responsible for all aspects of a feature area including design, implementation, performance, and quality. You will take such feature areas from ideation to successful global roll-out. You will act as a code and design reviewer and mentor other engineers. You must be self-driven, proactive, and results-oriented.LocationsNoida, Uttar Pradesh, India

Keyskills :
cloud development c# programming devops practices asynchronous processing system architecture java multithreading security windows infrastructure service design