.WE HAVE SEVERAL POSITIONS TO FILL IN LATIN AMERICA - YOU CAN WORK REMOTELY FROM THE COMFORT OF YOUR HOME!The Microsoft 365 team is looking for principal software engineers to help architect, design, and build one of the fastest growing cloud services in Microsoft.Do you want to design and develop new components that solve complex distributed systems and search optimization problems? Do you want to mentor other engineers and drive a technical area across the organization? Do you want to work on a product that ships new features every week? If the answer to these questions is yes, then Microsoft 365 team would like to hear from you!We build and operate the largest enterprise cloud productivity system in the world. Across products such as Exchange, Teams, and SharePoint, we power communication, sharing, search, and intelligent assistance for customers. Throughout we maintain very high reliability and availability, strong privacy and compliance for customers, and latency in milliseconds. We apply a combination of approaches from the fields of API design, Machine Learning, Distributed Computing, Workflow engines, Algorithm Optimization, and many more. Come to define, design, and deliver what enterprise cloud productivity means.ResponsibilitiesPrincipal engineers at Microsoft play a critical role in driving the technical details for projects spanning multiple areas and product teams. They need to understand the design, code, and features of many different areas, quickly come up to speed and implement features that delight customers and partners via their intuitiveness, attention to detail, and responsiveness. They must be able to design and implement services that are high scale, low latency, always on, low cost to maintain and operate. They influence other developers to come up with the right design and architecture for their components and make them the model for common patterns going forward. They have good partnership and influence skills and are motivated and able to work across multiple sub-teams.Key ResponsibilitiesDrive multiple projects through to delivery, removing obstacles as needed to ensure success.Develop architecture and design of large-scale distributed software services and solutions.Feature development including technical designing, coding, validation, and releasing to production at all stages of service lifecycle.Drive improvements to software engineering practices.Prioritize engineering investments to balance short- and long-term goals.Mentor and develop other engineers.Collaborate with teams across Microsoft to achieve goals.Keep up to date with industry trends and apply to projects as appropriate.Promote collaboration across teams for code reuse and knowledge sharing.Identify investments needed to improve customer/partner experience through a data-driven approach.Essential QualificationsBS or MS degree in Computer Science or Engineering OR equivalent years of work experience