Principal Software Engineer

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.

Microsoft’s Cloud Operations & Innovation (CO+I) team is the engine that powers our cloud services. CO+I delivers and operates the safest, most available and secure cloud in the industry. CO+I Engineering (CO+IE) is the software team that delivers tools, automation, and AI to enable fast, predictable delivery of datacenter capacity, and safe, reliable, and efficient execution of the processes associated with the full life cycle of datacenter management and operations.

We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer to architect our planning systems to maximize availability and minimize waste across our supply chain and data center resources. This role is a leadership lynchpin in the delivery of business value across CO+I, as well as upstream and downstream partner organizations. Working closely with business leaders, the role owns the technical strategy, definition, and delivery of complex software, coupled with algorithmic support for various production processes. In the coming agentic environment, this role can create the future, applying emerging ideas and technologies toward efficiency, availability, and scale.

This leader will have the ability to create and maintain a high-performance culture, build and own a highly complex set of systems and processes, and partner with multiple cross-functional leaders to deliver value for the company. The surface area is large, enabling the optimization of capacity plans that drive billions of dollars of spend and that serve as a key leverage for overall company growth. This leader will have to drive the right outcomes through ambiguity and massive change, and should have experience leading global, business critical organizations through significant change.

In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day. As a group, CO+I is focused on personal and professional development for all employees and offers training and growth opportunities including Diversity & Inclusion trainings and events, and professional certifications.

Responsibilities:

• Formulate a vision and execute a strategy to develop, support, and continuously improve our software architecture that optimizes datacenter capacity delivery and operation.