Microsoft

Principal Software Engineer

Microsoft
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3 days ago
Redmond, WA, USAStaff+
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Base Salary

$143k - $304k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Partner with stakeholders to understand user requirements, define success metrics, and incorporate continuous feedback.
  • Lead architecture, design decisions, dependency coordination, security, compliance, scalability, and performance for products and solutions.
  • Write, optimize, debug, refactor, review, and mentor others on extensible and maintainable code.
  • Define and lead testing strategies, test automation, quality improvements, and coverage enhancements.
  • Drive project milestones, release plans, implementation frameworks, deployment safety, and experimentation decisions.
  • Participate in rotational on-call support, incident mitigation, postmortems, DRI responsibilities, and reliability improvements.
  • Integrate telemetry, dashboards, notifications, analytics, and feedback loops to monitor system health and guide engineering decisions.
  • Develop and improve developer tools, automation, standardized engineering practices, and production and deployment processes.
  • Ensure solutions meet security, privacy, safety, accessibility, regulatory, and compliance expectations.
  • Build relationships with partner teams and mentor engineers across products and programs.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related technical discipline and 6+ years of technical engineering experience with coding, or equivalent experience.
  • Preferred: bachelor’s degree and 10+ years of technical engineering experience, or a master’s degree and 8+ years of technical engineering experience, or equivalent experience.
  • Experience coding in languages including C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
  • Experience with software architecture, design, testing, debugging, deployment, reliability, telemetry, and production operations.
  • Ability to lead technical decisions, coordinate across teams, mentor engineers, and manage complex dependencies.
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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