Microsoft

Principal Software Engineer

Microsoft
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19 hours ago
Redmond, WA, USAStaff+
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$143k - $304k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Partner with product managers, technical leads, and stakeholders to define requirements and improve solution quality.
  • Lead architecture discussions, design proposals, and scalable technical decisions addressing security, compliance, performance, and future growth.
  • Coordinate cross-team dependencies and integration paths across Microsoft engineering organizations.
  • Write, review, and maintain high-quality software while mentoring engineers on coding practices.
  • Lead debugging, telemetry analysis, validation, experimentation, and data-informed improvements.
  • Drive project and release planning, milestones, estimation, and execution across teams.
  • Serve as a directly responsible individual for incident response, playbooks, postmortems, and reducing incident volume.
  • Improve engineering tools, automation, workflows, observability, reliability, cost efficiency, security, privacy, accessibility, and compliance.
  • Act as a technical contact for partner teams and resolve conflicts across interdependent systems.

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 languages including C, C++, C#, PowerShell, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
  • Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and government security screening requirements, including the Microsoft Cloud Background Check.
  • Preferred: master’s degree and 8+ years of experience, or bachelor’s degree and 12+ years of experience, or equivalent experience.
  • Experience building and shipping production-grade software or services.
  • Experience designing, deploying, and operating large-scale, highly available services.
  • Experience with postmortem analysis and authoring for live-site issues.
  • Experience with build and validation systems for hardware, software, and cloud services.

Tech Stack

CC#C++JavaJavaScriptPowerShellPythonWindows

Categories

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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