Microsoft

Principal Software Engineer

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1 day ago
Redmond, WA, USA or Mountain View, CA, USAStaff+
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Base Salary

$143k - $304k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Set technical direction and own architecture for core Agent 365 platform components.
  • Design and deliver cell-based, fault-tolerant systems using Azure, AKS, and related compute services.
  • Lead investigations into complex failures across high-throughput, multi-tenant systems from initial signal through lasting remediation.
  • Balance scale, reliability, cost, and delivery speed in long-term platform decisions.
  • Establish standards for design, code quality, testing, and operational excellence through design reviews, incident retrospectives, and hands-on engineering.
  • Coordinate platform direction across Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365, Power Platform, Azure, and partner teams.
  • Mentor senior engineers and help build a culture of curiosity, debate, and ownership.
  • Use AI to build agentic engineering loops.

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 government security screening requirements, including the Microsoft Cloud Background Check.
  • Preferred: master's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field and 8+ years of technical engineering experience, or bachelor's degree and 12+ years of experience, or equivalent experience.
  • Proven experience designing and operating large-scale distributed services or cloud infrastructure in production.
  • Preferred 10+ years of experience building and running high-scale, multi-tenant cloud services.
  • Deep experience with Azure and container platforms such as AKS, Kubernetes, or Service Fabric, along with reliability engineering for 99.99% or higher availability.
  • Experience setting technical direction across teams and solving ambiguous, cross-service problems using structured, data-driven thinking.
  • Strong communication skills for explaining complex technical trade-offs to engineers and leaders.
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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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