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Microsoft Hiring for Principal Software Engineer Job at Sydney Full Time
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Do you enjoy software development and working directly with customers? Do you enjoy coaching and growing engineers? Are you excited about working across a broad spectrum of domains including Cloud Native, DevOps, IoT, Machine Learning, and High Scale Compute?
The Commercial Software Engineering (CSE) team is a global engineering organization that works directly with customers looking to leverage the latest technologies to address their toughest challenges and transform their industries using cloud-based solutions. We work closely with our customers’ engineers to develop code to jointly solve their biggest challenges to accelerate progress in their organization. In the process, we help shape the future of our own platforms by partnering with our product groups to improve them. We pride ourselves on making contributions to open source and make our platforms easier to adopt.
We sit side-by-side with our customers to collaboratively innovate custom solutions tailored to solve their challenges. Our work involves the development of high-impact, open source software assets that contribute to the Microsoft platform that are broadly applicable. Important to this role, you will be enabling your engineers to apply their skills, creativity and aspirations to the benefit of the customers and advance their careers.
CSE is part of the larger Industry Solutions (IS) team which is a global organization of over 13,000 strategic sellers, industry experts, elite engineers, and world-class architects, consultants, and delivery experts who work together to bring Microsoft’s mission of empowerment – and cutting-edge technology – to life for the world’s most influential customers. We are on the front lines of innovation, working side-by-side with customers to drive value across the entirety of their digital transformation journey.
Our team prides itself on embracing a growth mindset, inspiring excellence, and encouraging everyone to share their unique viewpoints and be their authentic selves. Join us and help create life-changing innovations that impact billions around the world!
Be respectful and inclusive – As a group, we work to build consensus with our teammates and customers. We’re looking for the sort of person who enjoys a culture that ensures that all voices and perspectives are heard and considered.
Responsibilities
Responsibilities
- Working hands-on with your team and our customers through architecture, design and implementation, setting examples for good engineering practices and coding along the way
- Exhibiting technical leadership throughout the broader CSE organization, with the Microsoft Product teams and the OSS community.
- Continuously improving our ability to deliver quality solutions through building your own technical knowledge, evolving our engineering process and technical capabilities
- Giving thoughtful feedback, nurturing an inclusive engineering environment, championing engineering fundamentals and providing mentorship for team members to grow.
Qualifications
Qualifications
We are seeking people who have experiences which reflect the qualifications below:
Required Qualifications:
- 10+ years of experience shipping or running production systems and/or software, including complex production systems that run on a public cloud
Preferred Qualifications:
- Strong service delivery experience including architecture and coding, and ideally building cloud services
- We do not require deep expertise in all software stacks that customers use. However, we do look for people who have significant expertise in one software stack (and preferably more)
- Experience working within and directing geographically dispersed, diverse, and virtual teams
- A Bachelor or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related discipline or the equivalent
- Industry experience in one of the following industries: automotive, energy, travel and transportation, financial services, government, health, manufacturing, media & communications, or retail
- Enjoy travel and are comfortable with regional travel up to 25%
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.
Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.