MCAPS-Core accelerates customer outcomes and business growth. By uniting product, engineering, marketing, sales, customer success, and partners around a common customer mission, we help customers realize value faster and turn innovation into measurable business impact. Through deep technical expertise and differentiated go-to-market execution, we win competitively, capture market share, and scale repeatable growth motions. We differentiate through value creation - delivering world-class, AI-powered customer experiences that accelerate adoption, strengthen loyalty, and create sustainable competitive advantage, driving growth that outpaces the market.
The Strategic Workload Acceleration Team (SWAT) is a highly technical team that accomplishes three strategic goals: 1) Work directly with our most strategic customer projects worldwide to ensure they are successful on the platform 2) Ensure our engineering teams fully understand the end-to-end technical details of their services through the eyes of our customers 3) Share best practices with the larger Customer Success community worldwide.
The Principal Software Engineer role in Strategic Workload Acceleration Team (SWAT) will drive architectural and programmatic oversight for strategic initiatives, aligned with Microsoft’s priorities around AI innovation and enhancing platform resiliency. By providing depth of insight for architecture improvement and innovation, this role is critical in planning and driving execution of strategic programs that deliver on MCAPS-Core's mission and operational goals.
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This is a hands-on technical role spanning across design, build, and production deployment on customer projects with a focus on issue resolution to remove customer production blockers. Candidates are expected to comfortably switch from a whiteboard to hands-on engineering.
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
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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