Principal Software Engineering Lead

Microsoft • Redmond, WA

12h

About The Position

Team Xbox is at the forefront of delivering the industry’s best platform and experiences for both gamers and game developers. We work closely with industry leaders across hardware, software, services and our 1st and 3rd party game development partners to ensure Microsoft’s platforms are designed and optimized to meet the needs of our most passionate fans and players, whether they choose to play on the Xbox console, PC, or mobile devices.
The Xbox Platform team is looking for a passionate and empathetic, technically excellent, and forward-looking leader to own the Data in Transit strategy and execution for our platform. In this role you will need to work across organizational boundaries to enable AI scenarios, drive clarity on data ownership, and implement scalable ingestion and storage practices. The team is already empowering others to self-serve once data is at rest, managing relationships with different stakeholders, and you will continue to find creative ways to achieve this goal in partnership with other team leads.
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.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.
• 7+ years of people management experience
• 12+ years of experience building/operating high scale data systems and distributed services, including familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure), specifically around data streaming.

Nice To Haves

• Master's 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 OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 12+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead and inspire a healthy team of engineers, fostering technical excellence and a culture of collaboration. Model and coach healthy behaviors for the team, help each individual grow through timely feedback, support through opportunity discovery, and apply kind performance management as needed
• Partner with product, data, and service engineering teams to align on deliverables, architecture, performance, and security goals. Oversee the compliance and security for telemetry ingestion tools at a scale of 1B+ daily events
• Shape the roadmap for data in transit on the platform team while influencing organization wide efforts
• Build and maintain positive relationships with stakeholders and dependency owners across the organization for larger impact.
• Drive a self-service Data & AI engineering culture within Xbox by overseeing the development of internal tools and processes

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Principal