Microsoft

Principal Software Engineer

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18 hours ago
Remote, United Kingdom or London, United KingdomStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Build and ship secure, reliable, production-ready systems and services for customer needs.
  • Translate business requirements into problem statements, success metrics, and architectural solutions.
  • Own end-to-end architecture for cloud and AI workloads while balancing reliability, performance, cost, and maintainability.
  • Use automated testing, observability, progressive delivery, and other modern engineering practices to deliver quickly and safely.
  • Work directly with customer engineering teams to drive delivery, adoption, and measurable outcomes.
  • Create reusable solution accelerators, reference architectures, and code for multiple customers and scenarios.
  • Coordinate workstreams, manage dependencies, and improve reliability and operational excellence in production services.
  • Provide technical direction and mentorship while collaborating with product, data, security, and domain teams.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field and technical engineering experience with coding in C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python, or equivalent experience.
  • Experience partnering directly with customers or internal stakeholders to deliver solutions end-to-end.
  • Preferred: master's or bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field and technical engineering experience, 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 operating AI systems in production and using platforms such as Azure ML or OpenAI.
  • Comfort with travel up to 25%.

Benefits

  • Base pay in the United Kingdom is £93,500.00–£161,800.00 per year.
  • The role may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
  • The position uses a Forward Deployed Engineering model with direct customer engagement and travel up to 25%.

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Forward Deployed
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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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