New 
Principal Software Engineer
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Washington, Redmond | |
 Jul 29, 2025 | |
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OverviewCome join the OneDrive and SharePoint AI Platform team and help us imagine and deliver the next generation of AI-powered productivity experiences to our hundreds of millions of users! With exabytes of customer content and growing, OneDrive and SharePoint are the foundation of content collaboration across Microsoft 365.Our team is focused on building systems and experiences to help people work with their content in brand new ways through the latest developments in large language models and generative AI. We're a collaborative, fast-paced team of engineers, product managers, designers, researchers, and scientists. We work in close partnership with other teams spanning across Microsoft. We are looking to hire a Principal Software Engineer to join our team.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.
ResponsibilitiesWe're looking for a senior product leader who's excited about the latest AI developments and passionate about turning them into real world magic for hundreds of millions of people at planet scale. This person will have the ability to forge cross-organization partnerships to achieve common aspirations, the aptitude to enable progress through data-driven methodology, and a drive to make our customers and our business successful.Key responsibilities include: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. | |