The Windows Cloud division is looking for a Principal Software Engineer/Architect that will help us take the Windows Cloud platform, as well as the Windows 365 Cloud PC and Azure Virtual Desktop business to the next level.
This role is 100% remote based in the United States of America. Relocation to the U.S. does not apply/is not provided for the role.
Windows 365 Cloud PC (W365) and Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) have recently been recognized as leaders in the inaugural Gartner Magic Quadrant™ for Desktop as a Service (DaaS). We continue to see expansion of these services and amazing adoption by enterprise and business customers. At its core, W365 and AVD provide business customers a modern, elastic, cloud-based Windows experience, and the ability to stay current in a simplistic and scalable manner. It has never been a more exciting time for us to start this initiative!
As a Principal Software Engineer/Architect in the Cloud Platform team, you will get an amazing opportunity to demonstrate leadership at both business and technology levels.
Who You Are
You are hands-on, comfortable dealing with ambiguity and a shifting landscape. Have experience with Azure or other cloud infrastructure services at scale, passionate about iterating fast in a startup environment, and getting the right design for our customers while understanding and articulating the tradeoffs.
With an entrepreneurial spirit, and a can-do attitude, you can drive consensus across various stakeholders. You will be a key member of the Windows Cloud Platform engineering leadership team, drive critical design initiatives, participate in strategic & tactical decisions, collaborate with internal partner teams, and will be accountable for shipping service offerings that succeed with our customers.
Responsibilities
In this role you will:
- Lead the technical direction and vision for the architecture, design, and the implementation of cloud platform that scales to provision, manage, and monitor health of millions of cloud-based virtual devices.
- Mentor and help grow a team of talented, diverse software engineers.
- Work across organizations, collaborating with internal partner teams such as Azure Compute, Core OS, Microsoft Security and Identity team, and others.
- Provide leadership for the architecture of secure, distributed, scalable, and resilient micro-services using modern technologies.
- Raise the technical bar, maintain a data and results driven culture, and nurture a high-performance team to build world-class experiences for W365 and AVD end users, ITPros, partners, and operations teams.
- Extend your knowledge of cloud compute, hypervisors, desktop virtualization, streaming technologies, and other technical areas including cloud-based management suites.
- Be part of a team designing new platform capabilities involving virtualized compute, storage, networking, GPUs, and streaming protocols (such as Remote Desktop Protocol) for our core products to enhance the value to our customer base.
- Be a part of an agile team working with experienced engineers and product managers that behave more like a technology startup.
Qualifications
Required/Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline 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.
- 6+ years of experience as a software engineer/leader designing, implementing, and shipping cloud services or software products.
- 3+ years of experience with distributed systems delivering large-scale, secure, and resilient cloud service.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Broad experience and track record of a customer advocate and creative problem solver.
- Keen interest for mentoring early career engineers.
- Demonstrated communication and collaboration skills.
- Broad experience and track record of working across teams to deliver shared solutions to complex problems.
- Ability to quickly ramp up, understand complex problems, and create solutions across many products.
- Ability to develop standards applicable to service and product reviews and corrective action plans.
Software Engineering IC6 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $158,500 - $276,600 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 $202,800 - $304,200 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
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