Microsoft Teams is core to Microsoft's vision for intelligent communications and productivity pane into the modern workplace. We are fast becoming the hub for teamwork in Office 365, with hundreds of thousands of organizations and tens of millions of users across the globe using Teams. Microsoft Teams now has more than 320 million daily users, cementing it as the fastest growing business application in Microsoft history.
 
We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer to provide technical leadership and drive implementation of client release infrastructure, validation gating and support feature flighting across multiple platforms, devices, and operating systems. Our infrastructure allows feature teams to deliver a new feature to millions of users in the order of minutes in an automated fashion.
 
The team collaboration space is evolving through rapid growth. People can learn about new technologies and quickly grow their careers. Our culture is inclusive, casual, and of high energy; our team members come from diverse backgrounds, thrive through teamwork, and are grounded in the needs of our customers.

 

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.

About us:

We’re a savvy group of generalizing specialists; we blend years of software engineering expertise with some of the newest and most popular tools, frameworks and methodologies to empower an entire organization to build great software.We pride ourselves in building smart systems and tools which make our fellow engineers more productive every day and enables them to ship high quality code to our customer continuously.We use Teams to ship Teams. Our tools are integrated into the product itself.

About you:

You have strong expertise with CI/CD practices and have an opinion on how to apply them at scale.You have a strong sense of craftsmanship in the solutions you create and an idea about how software should and should not be built & released.You believe that a task worth doing is a task worth automating.You seek out opportunities to learn new skills and technologies.You think ahead and build for the future and aren’t afraid of ambiguous challenges.You have a history of driving successful cross-organizational initiatives.