Principal Software Engineer

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Would you like to work on a product that will directly impact the daily life of billions of people?  Or would you like to work on a product that is used by over 90% of the largest fortune 100 companies?  If you are excited by either opportunity, please come join the IC3 (Intelligent Conversation and Communications Cloud) division at Microsoft.  As the world leader in providing communication services to consumers and businesses, Skype/Teams is enabling hundreds of millions of individuals and businesses in making over 2 billion minutes of video/voice calls every day.   Over ninety of the Fortune 100 companies are now using Skype for Business already and we are expanding the next generation Teams client and converged cloud services to power the future growth of O365 through the premium offering of enterprise voice and cloud meeting services.    The consumer-focused Teams/Skype products and services are also transitioning to the mobile first and cloud first strategy by offering industry leading video and PSTN calling services on mobile through cloud.    We are looking for brilliant minds to join us on this once in a life time transformation of the Teams/Skype product lines and services.

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Responsibilities

 

The IC3 media team is responsible for the research and development of the core real time media stack components enabling the Skype and Teams family products to work across the variety of platforms as well as enabling highly scalable media servers running in the cloud. 

We are looking for a talented developer with strong interest and potentials in building highly reliable and scalable network services, highly dependable mission critical meeting/calling products as well as applying large data and machine learning techniques for competitive innovations.   He/she will be designing and implementing the client and server media streaming/communication components, interfacing with other teams in Teams/Skype to improve and extend existing functionalities, analyzing production telemetry for areas of improvements, and working with the partner teams on improvements in testing and benchmarking the core media services

Qualifications

 

A successful candidate must have the following pre-requisite knowledge, skills and experience:

  • Excellent C++ and C skills
  • Experience with programming for networking, multi-threaded systems, and/or real time media
  • Good understanding of system software including OS and networking
  • Excellent communication skills
  • 7+ years of industrial experiences in software development esp. in the area of realtime media developmen
  • MS degree in Computer Science or Engineering

 

It is also highly desirable if the candidate has experiences like:

  • Hands-on experience with real time communication protocols
  • Hands-on experience with application of big data, machine learning techniques to improve systems
  • Practitioner of the latest engineering methodologies; Unit testing, TDD, Agile etc.

 

 

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.

 

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