Principal Software Engineer - Dynamics Customer Experience Applications team

Dynamics 365 is Microsoft’s suite of enterprise software that powers many of the largest businesses in the world. The Customer Experience Applications Team delivers Dynamics 365 Contact Center, an AI-first solution that lets our customers run intelligent and highly scalable contact centers. We are building the next generation of our applications running on Azure that pull together Dynamics 365, Office 365 and a number of other Microsoft cloud services to deliver high value, complete, and predictive application scenarios across all devices and form factors.      D365 Contact Center is a robust application that extends the power of CRM’s like Dynamics 365 Customer Service to enable organizations to instantly connect and engage with their customers via channels like Live Chat, Voice, and SMS.   As a Principal Software Engineer in the Microsoft Dynamics Customer Experience Applications team , you will provide technical leadership for the architecture, design, implementation, and operation of intelligent capabilities within Dynamics 365 Contact Center. You will solve ambiguous, high-impact engineering problems spanning distributed cloud services, applied AI, data, security, and reliability. You will set technical direction, align partner teams, and lead delivery of secure, scalable, production-ready systems that create measurable customer and business impact.   We innovate quickly and collaborate closely with our partners and customers in a very agile environment. If the opportunity to collaborate with a diverse engineering team, on enabling end-to-end business scenarios using cutting-edge AI first technologies and to solve problems for large scale 24x7 business SaaS applications excite you, we would love to talk to you!    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.

As a Principal Software Engineer in the Microsoft Dynamics Customer Experience Applications team, you will define and drive the technical strategy for intelligent, globally distributed services that power Dynamics 365 Contact Center. You will lead through influence, raise engineering standards, and partner across disciplines and organizations to deliver durable customer outcomes. Define and evolve the end-to-end architecture for complex, AI-enabled customer experience capabilities, making sound trade-offs across scale, latency, availability, security, cost, and time to market. Demonstrate strong end-to-end ownership for critical technical areas, from problem definition and architecture through implementation, deployment, operational health, and long-term improvement. Proactively identify gaps, drive issues to closure, and remain accountable for customer and business outcomes. Effectively manage multiple priorities and competing demands , balancing strategic engineering investments, customer commitments, live-site issues, and operational responsibilities while maintaining high standards for quality and execution. Adapt quickly to shifting priorities and business needs , making clear trade-offs, re-planning effectively, and redirecting engineering efforts when customer impact, reliability, security, or business priorities change. Operate with urgency and sound judgment in ambiguous environments , independently identifying what needs to be done, bringing the right partners together, and driving execution without waiting for detailed direction. Lead implementation of critical platform components , producing high-quality production code, and resolving the most complex design, performance, and debugging challenges across distributed systems. Drive technical strategy across