Microsoft

Principal Software Engineer

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Redmond, WA, USAStaff+
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Base Salary

$166k - $331k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Partner with stakeholders to define user requirements for evaluation scenarios.
  • Provide technical leadership for dependencies, design documents, and product, application, service, or platform development.
  • Lead by example and mentor engineers in producing extensible and maintainable code.
  • Lead project plans, release plans, and work items across multiple products.
  • Serve as a Designated Responsible Individual and monitor systems for degradation, downtime, or interruptions through on-call work.
  • Improve availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance while promoting consistent monitoring and operations at scale.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field and 8+ years of technical engineering experience with coding, or equivalent experience.
  • Preferred: master’s degree and 12+ years of technical engineering experience, or bachelor’s degree and 15+ years of experience, or equivalent experience.
  • 5+ years of experience owning and delivering large-scale projects involving multiple engineers.
  • Experience building systems that evaluate and improve product quality and using data to guide engineering decisions.
  • Experience with reliable, scalable infrastructure, reusable components, debuggability, and documented tooling.
  • Strong ownership, initiative, adaptability, and outcomes-focused execution.

Benefits

  • The role is based in Redmond, Washington and requires working in the office at least 3 days per week.
  • Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
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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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