Microsoft

Principal Software Engineer

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9 hours ago
Redmond, WA, USAStaff+
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$143k - $304k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Provide end-to-end technical leadership and turn ambiguous billing and engineering needs into a cohesive technical strategy.
  • Define and drive a multi-year architecture to simplify, consolidate, and modernize billing, metering, and usage-processing pipelines.
  • Improve billing correctness, reliability, observability, validation, and recovery by addressing systemic risks and recurring incidents.
  • Lead complex production incident investigations, identify root causes, and implement lasting architectural, engineering, and operational improvements.
  • Align product, commerce, and platform teams around common billing contracts, controls, and architecture.
  • Develop reusable AI-assisted engineering practices for architecture, coding, testing, debugging, validation, incident analysis, and operations.

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.
  • Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements, including the Microsoft Cloud Background Check.
  • Experience designing, operating, or modernizing large-scale distributed cloud services, high-scale data-processing systems, or business-critical platforms is preferred.
  • Experience with billing, commerce, metering, licensing, usage processing, financial data systems, or other systems requiring correctness and traceability is preferred.
  • Experience simplifying mature production systems, investigating systemic failure patterns and incidents, and delivering reliability and architectural improvements is preferred.
  • Experience providing technical leadership across multiple engineering teams and aligning stakeholders around multi-quarter strategies is preferred.
  • Experience applying AI-assisted engineering techniques and helping teams adopt reusable, responsible AI engineering practices is preferred.
  • Experience with Azure, SQL systems, cloud commerce, or hybrid and multicloud services is preferred.

Tech Stack

AzureCC#C++JavaJavaScriptMicrosoft SQL ServerMySQLPostgreSQLPythonSQL

Categories

Microsoft

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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