Microsoft

Principal FDE - Software Engineer

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2 months ago
United Kingdom (city not specified)Staff+

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, test, deploy, and operate production-grade AI-powered applications, agents, services, integrations, and workflows.
  • Own system architecture, technical designs, design decisions, dependency coordination, and security and compliance alignment for complex solutions.
  • Translate business and operational requirements into scalable implementations while rapidly prototyping and iterating based on real-world feedback.
  • Lead coding, code reviews, debugging, automated testing, experimentation, deployment, observability, documentation, and operational readiness.
  • Build reusable components, accelerators, engineering patterns, developer tools, and standardized automation that scale across teams.
  • Lead live-service reliability, on-call incident response, postmortems, playbooks, telemetry, performance analysis, and preventative improvements.
  • Mentor engineers and provide technical leadership across multiple products, teams, and Microsoft partner organizations.

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.
  • Demonstrated expertise in software architecture, coding, debugging, testing, deployment, reliability, observability, and scalable production systems.
  • Experience providing technical leadership, mentoring engineers, owning complex design decisions, and coordinating across teams.
  • Ability to work with ambiguity and rapidly develop AI-powered applications, agents, integrations, and workflows.
  • Knowledge of security, privacy, Responsible AI, compliance, accessibility, and Microsoft engineering requirements.

Benefits

  • The role is based in the United Kingdom and offers a base pay range of £93,500.00–£161,800.00 per year.
  • Additional benefits and pay information are provided through Microsoft’s corporate pay information page.
  • Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled, with the posting open for a minimum of 5 days.
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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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