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Overview
Core Services team in Microsoft Teams provides the foundational infrastructure, platform services, network, security, monitoring and governance to run planet scale distributed systems and microservices architecture that powers Microsoft Teams. Security and Reliability are at the heart of what this team aspires to do day in and day out.
As a
Principal Architect in Teams Core Services team you will be responsible for the architecture and design of the platform services, supporting Infra and Network Security, front door, routing, gateway, CDN, DNS and monitoring layers for the microservices powering Microsoft Teams. This opportunity will allow you to hone your skills in improving your security acumen working with experts in the space and become adept at troubleshooting and securing the network layer, and improve the reliability of such mission critical layers investing in active-active architectures at every possible level.
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.
Responsibilities
- You will drive strategic improvements in architecture and design standards across the Teams services, while prioritizing development and implementation efforts. You’ll also lead by example with a hands-on approach to architecture.
- You develop, test, and implement end-to-end optimization of code. Additionally, you develop, review, and provide feedback on code, scripts, systems, and/or platforms. You analyze data from telemetry pipelines and monitors tools that detail operations metrics. You identify optimal uses for existing tools and/or models to identify contributing factors or points of failure that are affecting the efficiency of complex systems.
- You will lead by example and mentors’ others to produce extensible and maintainable code used across products.
- You will leverage subject-matter expertise of cross-product features with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to drive multiple group projects plans, release plans, and work items.
- You will 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.
- You will proactively seek new knowledge and adapt 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 sharing knowledge with other engineers.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor'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 equivalent experience.
- 2+ years of experience handling security issues for large scale cloud services, network infrastructures, native applications, web applications, distributed and database systems.
- 2+ years of experience on areas like TCP/IP concepts, load balancing, CDN, ACL, routing, TLS, Certificate Lifecycle management, IP network analysis and performance and application issues using standard tools.
Preferred Qualifications
- Master'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 Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 15+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
- OR equivalent experience.
- Experience leading cross-functional collaboration across multiple engineering organizations with strong incident response and ability to drive technical decisions in ambiguous environments.
- Experience with Network security, Network troubleshooting, Cloud Security, Security Policy management and Certificate lifecycle management.
- Knowledge of Cloud Infrastructure services or 'Infrastructure as a Service [IaaS]' which delivers computer infrastructure, typically a platform virtualization environment as a service.
- Knowledge of automation technologies, leveraging AI for productivity improvements, methods, and processes used for quality and cost improvements.
- Experience managing horizontal initiatives/programs that span multiple teams/services.
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This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
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