Microsoft

Principal Software Engineer

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15 hours ago
Redmond, WA, USAStaff+
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Base Salary

$143k - $304k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, debug, test, troubleshoot, and deliver extensible, maintainable, secure, performant platform services.
  • Build runtime and orchestration capabilities, real-time multimodal experiences, durable long-running tasks, APIs and protocols, telemetry, evaluations, and partner tooling.
  • Guide engineers across teams, provide technical leadership, mentor others, and promote high-quality code and long-term maintainability.
  • Partner with stakeholders and PMs to define requirements, identify dependencies, create design documents, and lead project and release plans across multiple products.
  • Act as a Designated Responsible Individual and participate in on-call rotations to monitor service health, degradation, downtime, and interruptions.
  • Improve availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, performance, monitoring, and operations at scale.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field and 6+ years of technical engineering experience with coding, or equivalent experience.
  • Experience coding in one or more of C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
  • Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements, including the Microsoft Cloud background check.
  • Preferred: master’s degree and 8+ years of experience, or bachelor’s degree and 12+ years of experience, or equivalent experience.
  • Preferred: 2+ years building and designing complex web applications.
  • Preferred: 2+ years working on web performance, web profiling tools, and industry best practices.
  • Preferred: 2+ years defining engineering culture and automation, performance, and reliability practices for a broader organization.
  • Preferred: 2+ years leading crews of five or more engineers on complex web development projects.

Benefits

  • Base pay is listed separately for general U.S. locations and for the San Francisco Bay Area and New York City metropolitan area; certain roles may also be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
  • The position is open for a minimum of 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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