Principal Software Engineer - Microsoft Teams VDI Engineering
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Washington, Redmond | |
 Jul 02, 2025 | |
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OverviewCome build community, explore your passions, and do your best work. If you join the Microsoft Teams VDI team, you will be part of an organization that is dedicated to enhancing virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) solutions for seamless collaboration and communication. Your contributions will help drive innovation and improve user experiences across organizations globally. This opportunity will allow you to accelerate your career growth, develop deep technical skills, hone your problem-solving abilities, and become adept at designing and implementing scalable solutions. This role is flexible in that you will be able to partner with your manager to define the way that you'd like to work, whether that is in the office or from home.As a member of the Teams VDI team, you will work on cutting-edge technologies to optimize the performance and reliability of Microsoft Teams in virtualized environments. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop solutions that address the unique challenges of VDI, ensuring that users have a seamless and efficient experience. Your work will directly impact the productivity and collaboration capabilities of organizations worldwide, making a tangible difference in how people connect and work together. 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.
ResponsibilitiesUnderstand User Requirements: Partner with stakeholders to determine user requirements for virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) scenarios. Incorporate continuous feedback loops and measure customer value. Design: Lead architecture discussions and create design documents for VDI solutions. Ensure system architecture meets security and compliance requirements. Mentor others in testing and quality assurance. Coding: Produce extensible and maintainable code for VDI solutions. Optimize, debug, refactor, and reuse code. Lead code reviews and ensure adherence to best practices.Implement: Drive project plans and release plans for VDI solutions. Conduct experimentation and interpret results. Ensure safe deployment of solutions.Reliability and Supportability: Maintain live service operations and implement solutions to complex issues impacting VDI services. Act as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and mentor others. Integrate instrumentation for gathering telemetry data.Engineering Excellence: Enhance and reuse software developer tools. Ensure high security, privacy, safety, and accessibility standards. Stay current with new trends and technical solutions. | |