New 
Principal Software Engineer - Microsoft Teams
 Microsoft | |
 United States, California, Mountain View | |
 Aug 22, 2025 | |
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OverviewMicrosoft Teams is the new chat-based application in Office 365. It's a hub for teamwork, giving teams instant access to everything they need right in Office 365. Microsoft Teams is the canvas that keeps all your content, tools, people, and conversations together in one place. It is the hottest product at Microsoft and we're on course to disrupt the team collaboration space. You will also have the opportunity to work on People and Presence area - profile and avatar management, contacts management, @mentions, people search, and other experiences across both consumer and enterprise versions of the product. These are the foundation for chat, channel, meetings, calendar, and other experiences across Teams product.In the People and Presence team we are continuously evolving both client and service APIs and micro-services that operate at high scale. It provides exciting opportunities in building resilient, highly available, and highly scalable APIs and services that meet the needs of an ever-growing user base of Microsoft Teams. You will also have the opportunity to work on generative AI, LLM, and world class AI stack that power Team's Copilot and other Team's AI product. This is a unique opportunity to hone your full stack system design, and your exposure to cutting edge technology stack (.NET Core, ASP.NET Core, Service Fabric, Redis, Azure, React, GraphQL and RESTful APIs) and application architecture skills offering E2E ownership and broad scope to have a huge impact.As a team we're proud of what we build and how we build it. We run lean, obsess about customers and use an evidence-based approach to decision making. We have live-site first, metrics-driven culture that prevents us from accumulating debt and necessity to put out fires on daily basis. You will be in a position that carries a ton of responsibility and provides opportunities to impact customers' satisfaction and grow the business exponentially. 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.
ResponsibilitiesSoftware Development Engineer working within an agile development environment with other developers and product owners to scope, architect, develop and deliver world-class software solutions.Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and improve software.Prior experience or interest in site reliability engineering/dev-ops.Manage individual project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables.Keep a razor focus on the usage/metrics of the owned services and be super customer focused. | |