Principal Software Engineer Microsoft
Redmond, WA

Job Description

In Cognition, people-not devices-are at the center of everything we do. Our tech moves beyond screens and pixels, creating a new reality aimed at bringing us closer together-whether that's scientists "meeting" on the surface of a virtual Mars or some yet undreamt-of possibility. To get there, we're incorporating diverse groundbreaking technologies, from the revolutionary Holographic Processing Unit to computer vision, machine learning, human-computer interaction, and more. We're a growing team of talented engineers and artists putting technology on a human path across all Windows devices, including Microsoft HoloLens, the Internet of Things, phones, tablets, desktops, and Xbox. We believe there has to be a better way. If you do too, we need you!

We are looking for talented engineers for the Cognition Development Operations team. The team is responsible for creating an engineering system that can support multiple projects and can target several operating systems.

Required Qualifications:

* 5+ years C/C++ programing experience
* BS/MS in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or equivalent industry experience

Candidates applying for this role should have experience with:

* Experience with Azure Dev Ops
* Great communication skills
* There are plenty of other skills that aren't required, but you'll find useful in this role. Let us know if you have experience with
* Experience in testing and debugging on Windows, Android, IOS

Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:

Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

Help with designing and developing:

* Build tools that do not get in the product developers' way and allowing them to focus on feature work and testing.
* End to End deployment and testing solutions built around containers, emulators and devices.
* Tracking mechanisms to help determine quality of the product.
* Tools to help with managing source code that exists in single and multi-repos.