Principal Software Engineer - Microsoft

Microsoft Dynamics 365 is a suite of easy-to-learn and easy-to-use business solutions tailored to any market, designed for any business size, and dedicated to growing business through happy customers. The Customer Service Applications Team delivers business applications for Connected Customer Care for Contact Centers! We are building the next generation of our applications running on Azure that pull together Dynamics 365, Office 365 and a number of other Microsoft cloud services to deliver high value, complete, and predictive application scenarios across all devices and form factors.  

As a Principal Software Engineer in the Microsoft Dynamics Customer Service Applications team, you will work with senior business and technology leaders as well as internal business users and Partners to conceive, design and implement Dynamics 365 applications and pick the best technical architecture to solve their business needs. 

We innovate and collaborate closely with our partners and customers in a very agile environment. If the opportunity to collaborate with a diverse engineering team, on enabling end-to-end business scenarios using cutting-edge technologies and to solve challenging problems for large scale 24x7 business SaaS applications excite you, we would love to talk to you! 

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications

· Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.

o OR equivalent experience.

Additional or Preferred Qualifications

· Bachelors 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.

o OR Masters 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.

o OR equivalent experience.

• Experience with design and implementation of enterprise-scale services.
• Experience delivering Dynamics 365 and/or Power Platform solutions desirable.
• Excellent verbal, written, and cross-team collaboration skills are essential to succeed in this role.  
• A team player and collaborator, across time zones and diverse stakeholder groups.  
• Passion for improving software quality and engineering excellence. 
• Experience in developing, debugging, and supporting code in object-oriented languages and database querying languages. 
• Experience with building infrastructure using Microsoft Azure technology like Service Fabric, App Service, Docker. 
• Experience in developing and debugging product and test code within a micro-services architecture.

Software Engineering IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $137,600 - $267,000 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $180,400 - $294,000 per year. Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. 

Responsibilities

As a Principal Software Engineer, you will be responsible for implementing features towards a wide variety of business applications and services within Dynamics 365 products portfolio as well as ensuring they are done to meet rigorous quality standards with the result being software that is used by individuals and businesses throughout the world. In short you will do the following: 

• Envision, design, implement, test, deploy, maintain, and improve our software components and services 
• Embrace and use state-of-the-art new technologies 
• Participate in technical discussions and bring new ideas on the table 
• Own quality of your code  
• Work with Product Managers, Architects and UX Designers to design and specify new features from the engineering standpoint 
• Develop software that empowers customers to optimize their business processes 
• Author internal tools that improve the teams’ quality and productivity 
• Contribute to the positive, solution focused and creative team spirit 
• Support less experienced team members in their progress and development 

Throughout your tasks, you will work closely with Program Managers and other Software Engineers to optimize design, quality and functionality as Microsoft places a premium on the ability to work well in a team environment.