Microsoft

Principal Software Engineer

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3 days ago
Redmond, WA, USAStaff+
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Base Salary

$143k - $304k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Lead architectural discussions, evaluate design options, make technical decisions, and design complex scalable products.
  • Build extensible, maintainable, secure, and well-tested software while conducting thorough code reviews.
  • Coordinate project and release planning, cross-team dependencies, schedules, integrations, and escalation pathways.
  • Serve as a designated responsible individual for live-site incident monitoring, coordination, resolution, and prevention.
  • Improve on-call processes, operational mitigations, reliability, security, and service scalability.
  • Coach less experienced engineers and promote coding, security, privacy, compliance, and operational best practices.
  • Identify and apply AI automation, tooling, and agentic approaches across the software lifecycle while incorporating Responsible AI principles.
  • Collaborate with stakeholders and partner teams to incorporate requirements and ensure performance, scalability, and secure operations.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related technical field and at least 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.
  • Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements, including the Microsoft Cloud background check.
  • Preferred: master's degree and 8+ years of technical engineering experience, or bachelor's degree and 12+ years of technical engineering experience, or equivalent experience.
  • Preferred: experience with AI-native development in which AI systems perform much of the product lifecycle under human direction, architecture, and approval.

Benefits

  • The typical U.S. base pay range is USD $142,800-$274,800 per year, with a separate range for specified San Francisco Bay Area and New York City metropolitan locations.
  • Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
  • The position is open for at least 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until filled.

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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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