Microsoft Looking For Principal Software Development Engineer – Outlook Team at Redmond, WA Full Time

Outlook team powers the email and calendar products that hundreds of millions of users count on every day to connect, organize, and get things done. Through our rich history of bringing email and calendar together in Outlook we have learned the importance of building products that focus on simplicity, reliability, and creating delightful experiences so everyone can cut through the noise and focus on what matters most to them.

Are you passionate about designing and building the next generation Time Management Platform used by hundreds of millions of users every day? Do you want to work on cutting-edge scalable backend systems with high performance and reliability? Do you want to work on the infra that powers the next gen Room/Resource Scheduling experiences which is a major focus point in work culture? If you have answered a resounding “YES!” for all the above, then we may have a position for you!

The Resource Scheduling Service team is building the next generation of microservices to power new time/resource management experiences. We’re looking for a Principal software engineer to write scalable, maintainable, efficient service code to run on tens of thousands of servers supporting millions of customers every day. We are looking for someone with experience building high scalable microservices, and can act as a technical lead, working with partner teams to deliver on the next generation of resource/time management experiences.

Responsibilities

Your responsibilities will include designing and implementing the core Resource/Time Management data model and business logic used by all Outlook clients and other M365 products to power time management and resource scheduling scenarios.

Be a technical lead for the team, write well-factored, well-tested code, and the monitoring systems to ensure it functions well in production. Use telemetry to discover bugs, customer pain points, and other opportunities for improvement to make our users’ lives a little better every day. Work closely with engineers up and down the stack to deliver seamless experiences at a massive scale.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:
BS in Computer Science, related degree, or equivalent experience

7+ years OOP development experience (C# is a plus)

Preferred Qualifications:
Experience with gRPC is highly desirable

Strong customer focus

Excellent project management and communication skills

Excellent cross-team collaboration skills

Strongly preferred: experience designing scalable, responsive, multi-threaded backend services

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