Principal Software Engineer - Backend

Microsoft AI is seeking a Principal Software Engineer for its Shopping team to build advanced shopping capabilities. The role involves designing and developing scalable backend systems, making architectural decisions, and collaborating with various teams to deliver impactful solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Partners with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a set of scenarios
• Leads identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform
• Leads by example and mentors others to produce extensible and maintainable code used across products
• Leverages subject-matter expertise of cross-product features with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to drive multiple group's project plans, release plans, and work items
• Holds accountability as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI), mentoring engineers across products/solutions, working on-call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions
• Proactively seeks new knowledge and adapts to new trends, technical solutions, and patterns that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale and shares knowledge with other engineers

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
• 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 12+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python + OR equivalent experience
• Passion for supporting great quality, high performance, and reliable systems and APIs
• Designing and scaling high-throughput distributed systems and robust data pipelines, with a proven ability to architect resilient backend infrastructures that balance low-latency performance with complex data integrity requirements
• Customer focused, strategic, drives for results, is self-motivated, and has a propensity for action
• Good problem solver; ability to solve problems that the world has not solved before