Microsoft

Principal Software Engineer

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Redmond, WA, USAStaff+
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Base Salary

$143k - $304k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Drive architecture and technical direction for the Agent Connectivity Platform.
  • Design, build, operate, and improve platform services for connectors, connection management, authentication, authorization, and agent access.
  • Own delivery from requirements and design through implementation, testing, rollout, and production operations.
  • Partner across product, engineering, and stakeholder teams to define scenarios, resolve dependencies, and deliver shared platform capabilities.
  • Write production-quality code, conduct design and code reviews, and provide hands-on technical mentorship.
  • Apply AI tools to software implementation, testing, troubleshooting, and operations while maintaining quality and security.
  • Use prototypes, experiments, success metrics, and production telemetry to validate designs and guide releases.
  • Build security, compliance, tenant isolation, and governance into platform architecture and connection lifecycles.
  • Participate in on-call rotations, lead incident diagnosis and mitigation, and prevent recurrence.
  • Improve platform availability, reliability, performance, observability, and cost efficiency.
  • Define evaluation strategy and infrastructure for agentic systems, including benchmarks, automated quality measurement, regression detection, and release criteria.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field and 6+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python, or equivalent experience.
  • 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 technical engineering experience, or bachelor's degree and 12+ years of technical engineering experience, or equivalent experience.
  • Experience with OAuth 2.0, Microsoft Entra ID, delegated and application permissions, and credential lifecycle management.
  • Experience building agent-facing tools or services, including familiarity with Model Context Protocol or related interoperability patterns.
  • Experience designing and operating multi-tenant services with enterprise security, governance, and compliance requirements.
  • 3+ years of professional experience using generative AI to accelerate software development, improve operations, and assess customer satisfaction.

Benefits

  • The typical U.S. base pay range is USD $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 is open for a minimum of 5 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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