If you’re excited about innovation and exploration in an environment that supports you and encourages experimentation, check out our team for an exciting open source role! We are the Azure Incubations Team within the Azure Office of the CTO, responsible for identifying new product ideas, incubating those ideas, and if they’re successful, creating open source community around the idea and handing off to Azure’s service teams. Our goal is to find and develop disruptive opportunities that have the potential to drive value to the Azure business. We work closely with the open-source community as part of our endeavor. 

To empower innovation, we’ve created a psychologically safe environment for experimentation and incubation. When we find good ideas, we double down on those ideas, building out the idea into a fully functional product.  If you’re excited about innovation and exploration in this type of environment, this Principal Software Engineer role is a great role for you. 

We are an organization that cares about work-life balance, personal and professional growth, enjoying your work, and liking the people you work with.  As remote first organization with offices on the Microsoft Redmond & Mountain View campus, you’ll have the flexibility to work from anywhere and interact with team members across the globe from a wide variety of backgrounds. 

Being a member of the Incubations team means working on projects with high ambiguity. We need engineers adept at looking around corners and creating order out of chaos so we land on the best architecture and design from a myriad of options. We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer who can communicate the project strategy across a broad set of individuals – users, contributors, internal and external partners – with varying levels of technical depth.   

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.