Microsoft

Principal Software Engineer - FDE

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Remote, Saudi Arabia or Riyadh, Saudi ArabiaStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Partner with stakeholders and customers to understand requirements, measure customer value, and shape solution designs.
  • Lead architecture, design documents, dependency coordination, security and compliance alignment, and technical decision-making.
  • Produce, review, debug, refactor, and optimize maintainable production code while mentoring other engineers.
  • Define and lead testing strategies, automation, experimentation, quality metrics, and deployment practices.
  • Own live-service reliability through on-call support, incident response, postmortems, playbooks, and Designated Responsible Individual responsibilities.
  • Integrate telemetry, analyze system and product metrics, and use data to improve reliability, performance, and customer outcomes.
  • Develop and promote reusable developer tools, automation, standardized solutions, and engineering best practices across teams.
  • Coordinate project and release plans, cross-team partnerships, deployments, and resolution of complex technical blockers.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related technical discipline and 6+ years of technical engineering experience with coding, or equivalent experience.
  • Coding experience in one or more of C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
  • Preferred: bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related technical field and 10+ years of technical engineering experience, or a master’s degree in computer science or a related technical field and 8+ years of experience, or equivalent experience.

Benefits

  • The role uses a Forward Deployed Engineering model, embedding engineers directly within customer teams.
  • Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis, and the position will be open for a minimum of 5 days.
  • Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer and provides accommodation support during the application process.

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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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