Microsoft

Principal Software Engineer

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17 hours ago
Redmond, WA, USAStaff+
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Base Salary

$143k - $304k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Lead the design and development of large-scale self-service AI, agentic, and data-platform capabilities and frameworks.
  • Advance AI-native software development through coding agents, agentic workflows, and harness engineering.
  • Drive cross-team technical alignment with engineering and product teams to define requirements and deliver trusted end-to-end data solutions.
  • Build and dogfood streaming scenarios including distributed tracing pipelines, near-real-time operational analytics, telemetry enrichment, and Microsoft 365 data workflows.
  • Leverage Microsoft Azure, AI technologies, and open-source frameworks to deliver reliable, highly available production services.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related technical field and 6+ years of technical engineering experience with coding, or equivalent experience.
  • Preferred: master’s degree with 8+ years of technical engineering experience, or bachelor’s degree with 12+ years of technical engineering experience, or equivalent experience.
  • Experience with production big-data platforms, streaming pipelines, platform capabilities, state management, checkpointing, connectors, or performance tuning.
  • Experience with Kubernetes, Cosmic, Azure, or comparable container infrastructure.
  • Experience with Spark, Kafka, Airflow, distributed storage, analytical systems, or near-real-time data pipelines.
  • Experience with Copilot, agents, LLM orchestration, retrieval, evaluation, or agent-assisted engineering and data workflows.
  • Domain knowledge in distributed tracing, observability, production diagnostics, telemetry systems, or service reliability.
  • Experience building large-scale distributed systems, cloud services, or enterprise platforms.
  • Proficiency in one or more of C#, C++, Java, Python, or JavaScript, with the posting also listing C.
  • Experience designing reliable, highly available production services and influencing technical direction across teams.
  • Ability to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire or transfer and every two years thereafter, along with applicable customer or government security screenings.

Benefits

  • The typical U.S. base pay range is $142,800–$274,800 per year; a separate range applies to the San Francisco Bay Area and New York City metropolitan area.
  • Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
  • The position will remain open for at least five days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until filled.

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About Microsoft

10,000+ employees

Microsoft develops operating systems, productivity software, cloud services, developer tools, and consumer devices for individuals, enterprises, and governments. Its main products include Windows, Microsoft 365, Azure, Visual Studio/GitHub, Xbox, and LinkedIn; revenue comes from software subscriptions and licenses, cloud consumption, hardware sales, and advertising. Founded in 1975 and headquartered in Redmond, Washington, Microsoft is a public company traded on Nasdaq.

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