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Principal Software Engineer - Microsoft Teams

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Microsoft Corporation

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United States , Mountain View

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Salary:

139900.00 - 274800.00 USD / Year

Job Description:

Microsoft Teams is the new chat-based application in Office 365. It's a hub for teamwork, giving teams instant access to everything they need right in Office 365. Microsoft Teams is the canvas that keeps all your content, tools, people, and conversations together in one place. It is the hottest product at Microsoft and we’re on course to disrupt the team collaboration space. You will also have the opportunity to work on generative AI, LLM, and world class AI stack that power Team’s Copilot and other Team’s AI product. You will be part of a team that is at the forefront of AI innovation and research, and that leverages the latest advances in deep learning, natural language processing, and conversational AI. In the Teams AI services team, we are continuously evolving our micro-services to support new messaging features while maintaining a high performance, scalable, and cost-effective eco-system. We are hiring for a Principal Software Engineer who can help us build revolutionary, robust, and scalable back-end services. This is a unique opportunity to hone your system design skills and will give you exposure to cutting edge technology stack (.NET Core, Typescript, Service Fabric, Redis, Azure Cosmos DB) as well as cross-org collaboration opportunities. You will have E2E ownership and make a huge impact in this critical area. As a team we’re proud of what we build and how we build it. We run lean, obsess about customers and use an evidence-based approach to decision making. We have live-site first, metrics-driven culture that prevents us from accumulating debt and necessity to put out fires on daily basis. You will be in a position that carries a ton of responsibility and provides opportunities to impact customers’ satisfaction and grow the business exponentially. 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.

Job Responsibility:

  • Designing, developing and maintaining high-scale services that form the backbone of Microsoft Teams
  • Apply state-of-the-art techniques in deep learning, natural language processing, and conversational AI to build and improve the AI capabilities of Microsoft Teams
  • Experiment, prototype, and evaluate new ideas and approaches for AI-powered messaging features
  • Work closely with other AI teams across Microsoft to leverage and share best practices and resources
  • Manage individual project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables
  • Dive deep into Azure technologies and distributed database systems
  • Collaborate with partners, internal and external to Microsoft Teams organization, in order to design and build features that drive growth in our user base
  • Always keep availability, reliability, performance and scalability in mind
  • Build reusable libraries of services best practices for other teams to leverage

Requirements:

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • OR equivalent experience
  • Experienced delivering large-scale services, coding and development skills with experience in at least one of the following languages: Typescript, C#, .Net Core, Java
  • Experience solving challenging problems and cross team organization and collaboration skills
  • Computer science fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, distributed systems, information retrieval
  • Experience in developing and operating large-scale backend services including design and implementation using Azure Compute, Azure Storage, Azure Cache, or equivalent technology stack in other cloud providers

Nice to have:

  • 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 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 equivalent experience
  • Experience in DevOps to maintain live services and/or application frameworks
  • Experience with unit-test, continuous integration, and test-driven development is a plus
  • Experience in optimizing highly scalable systems is a plus
  • Experience working with Service Fabric or Kubernetes as a plus

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
January 26, 2026

Employment Type:
Fulltime
Work Type:
Hybrid work
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