Microsoft

Principal Software Engineer, FDE

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Remote, United Kingdom or London, United KingdomStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Build and ship reliable, production-ready systems and services that deliver measurable customer and business outcomes.
  • Partner with stakeholders and customers to define problem statements, success metrics, technical solutions, and architectural approaches.
  • Own end-to-end architecture for cloud and AI workloads, balancing reliability, performance, cost, security, and maintainability.
  • Apply automated testing, observability, progressive delivery, and other modern engineering practices to deliver quickly while reducing operational risk.
  • Create reusable solution accelerators, reference architectures, and code for use across customers and scenarios.
  • Lead complex delivery workstreams, manage dependencies, improve operational excellence, and support production services.
  • Provide technical direction and mentorship while collaborating with product, data, security, and customer engineering teams.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent experience.
  • Experience partnering directly with customers or internal stakeholders to deliver solutions end-to-end.
  • Preferred: master's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent experience.
  • Preferred: experience designing, deploying, and operating AI or LLM-based solutions, including prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented approaches, model tuning, evaluation, data quality, performance monitoring, and cloud AI platforms.
  • Preferred: familiarity with deploying and operating AI systems in production environments.
  • Preferred: experience using cloud AI platforms such as Azure ML or OpenAI.
  • Comfort with travel of up to 25%.

Benefits

  • Competitive benefits package supporting health, wellness, and financial needs.
  • Informal and flexible work environment.
  • United Kingdom role with a stated base pay range of £93,500.00–£161,800.00 per year; benefits and additional compensation may vary by role and country.
  • Position is open for a minimum of five days and accepts applications on an ongoing basis until filled.

Categories

Forward Deployed
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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