Principal Software Architect
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Washington, Redmond | |
 Apr 15, 2025 | |
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OverviewIf you're passionate about building cutting-edge solutions that empower teamwork and communication, we want to hear from you! Microsoft Teams is the central hub for teamwork, bringing together people, content, and tools to enhance team engagement and effectiveness. It plays a pivotal role in Microsoft's vision for modern work, modern life, and modern education. We are revolutionizing how people communicate and collaborate across the globe.We are seeking a Principal Software Architect (Individual Contributor) fortheMicrosoft Teams Core Messaging group.This person willcollaborate with a multi-functional group to deliver next generation innovations and partner withproduct and engineering teams to invent and deliver on the future for Teams Copilot and Messaging products. 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.
ResponsibilitiesCollaborate and work across multiple disciplines to deliver innovation. Leverages deep subject-matter expertise of cross-product features with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to lead multiple product's project plans, release plans, and work items.Communicate priorities and tradeoffs to lay out a path for achieving a vision.Inspire without authority across teams and motivate individuals to work together towards common goals. Leads by example and mentors others to produce extensible and maintainable code used across the company.Provide technical leadership for the identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.Hold 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 seek 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.Thrive in a bit of chaos and creates the structure needed to execute smoothly at scale. | |