Microsoft

Principal Software Engineer

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16 hours ago
Redmond, WA, USAStaff+
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$143k - $304k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Lead the design and development of large-scale self-service AI, agentic, and data-platform capabilities and frameworks.
  • Advance AI-native software development through coding agents, agentic workflows, and harness engineering.
  • Partner across engineering and product teams to define requirements and deliver trusted end-to-end data solutions.
  • Drive technical architecture, cross-team alignment, and innovation using Microsoft Azure, AI technologies, and open-source frameworks.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field and 6+ years of technical engineering experience with coding, or equivalent experience.
  • Preferred qualifications include a master’s degree with 8+ years of experience, or a bachelor’s degree with 12+ years of experience, or equivalent experience.
  • Experience with production big data platforms, streaming pipelines, platform capabilities, state management, checkpointing, connectors, or performance tuning is preferred.
  • Preferred experience includes online experimentation, Spark, Kafka, Airflow, distributed storage, analytical systems, and near-real-time data pipelines.
  • Preferred experience includes Copilot, agents, LLM orchestration, retrieval, evaluation, and agent-assisted engineering or data workflows.
  • Experience with distributed systems, cloud services, enterprise platforms, reliable highly available production services, observability, telemetry, or service reliability is preferred.
  • Proficiency in one or more of C#, C++, Java, Python, or JavaScript is preferred.
  • Ability to collaborate across teams, influence technical direction, navigate ambiguity, and drive technical decisions is required.
  • Ability to meet Microsoft Cloud background check and applicable customer or government security screening requirements is required.

Benefits

  • The position is based in Redmond, Washington and requires working in the office at least three 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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