Microsoft

Principal Software Engineer

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Responsibilities

  • Drive technical strategy, architecture, and execution for hyperscale cloud platform and deployment systems.
  • Lead the design and delivery of large-scale infrastructure and platform investments.
  • Build secure, scalable, reliable, and maintainable distributed systems.
  • Influence engineering direction through architectural leadership and technical decision-making.
  • Drive operational excellence through automation, observability, and reliability engineering.
  • Ensure solutions meet security, privacy, compliance, accessibility, and service reliability standards.
  • Mentor engineers and foster engineering excellence across teams.
  • Partner across Microsoft to deliver business impact at global scale.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related technical field plus 6+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in languages including C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python, or equivalent experience.
  • Preferred: bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related technical field and 12+ years of software engineering experience.
  • Experience with systems thinking, architectural design, and large-scale geo-distributed engineering initiatives.
  • Experience building, shipping, and operating highly available distributed systems at scale.
  • Experience building cloud infrastructure, platform services, or developer platforms.
  • Experience leveraging AI technologies for platform and infrastructure challenges.
  • Ability to solve complex problems, design, code, debug, mentor engineers, and influence technical direction across teams.
  • Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements, including the Microsoft Cloud background check.
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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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