Microsoft

Principal Software Engineer

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Redmond, WA, USAStaff+
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Base Salary

$143k - $304k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Define multi-year technical strategy, architecture, roadmaps, milestones, and measurable outcomes for globally distributed Dataverse database services.
  • Own critical technical areas from problem definition and architecture through implementation, deployment, operational health, and long-term evolution.
  • Lead complex initiatives across database, service, infrastructure, security, and compliance domains.
  • Establish practices for validation, safe deployment and rollback, observability, capacity management, incident response, reliability, and continuous improvement.
  • Mentor engineers, review architecture and code, define reusable patterns, and raise engineering quality and standards.

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 pass Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements, including the Microsoft Cloud Background Check.
  • Preferred qualifications include a master’s degree with 8+ years of experience, or a bachelor’s degree with 12+ years of experience, or equivalent experience.
  • Experience architecting and delivering large-scale production cloud services with technical leadership across multiple teams and complex dependencies.
  • Experience with SQL and enterprise-grade relational databases, including administration, query and workload optimization, capacity management, reliability engineering, and fleet-scale automation.
  • Experience designing, building, and troubleshooting scalable resilient event-driven systems with asynchronous processing, failure recovery, observability, controlled flighting, and resource optimization.
  • Ability to set technical direction, build alignment, influence architecture without direct authority, and diagnose cross-service failures using logs, telemetry, correlation IDs, and distributed traces.

Benefits

  • The typical U.S. base pay range is $142,800–$274,800 per year, with a different range for specified San Francisco Bay Area and New York City metropolitan area locations.
  • Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
  • The position will remain open for a minimum of 5 days and accept applications 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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