Overview The Developer Productivity Services team delivers fast growing Azure services that help drive enterprises to move to the cloud by providing streamlined, self-service, and cost optimized solutions. Microsoft Dev Box is one of our products that our team has been working on to transform the dev workstation experience for developers. We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer to lead developer experience for Microsoft Dev Box. This team owns making the experience of using DevBox seamless. We are looking for someone to improve user experience and look for creative ways to solve customer problems. 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. Responsibilities Partners with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a set of scenarios. Leads identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform. Leads by example and mentors others to produce extensible and maintainable code used across products. Leverages knowledge of cross-product features with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to drive multiple group's project plans, release plans, and work items. Holds accountability as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI), mentoring engineers across products/solutions, working on-call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions. Proactively seeks new knowledge and adapts to new trends, technical solutions, and patterns that will improve the availability, reliability, observability, and performance of products. Leads consistency in monitoring and operations at scale and shares knowledge with other engineers.Embody our Culture and Values