Microsoft

Principal Software Engineer

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6 days ago
Redmond, WA, USAStaff+
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Base Salary

$143k - $275k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Architect and deliver end-to-end solutions across frontend, backend, APIs, and cloud platforms.
  • Lead development of scalable, reliable, secure, and accessible customer experiences.
  • Drive technical strategy and architecture for complex cross-team initiatives.
  • Partner with product, design, and data teams to translate business goals into technical solutions.
  • Improve engineering velocity, service reliability, observability, and operational excellence.
  • Mentor engineers and raise the technical bar across the organization.
  • Champion modern engineering practices, security, privacy, accessibility, and AI-powered development.
  • Use experimentation and data insights to optimize customer engagement and product outcomes.

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: bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related technical field and 10+ years of technical engineering experience, or equivalent experience.
  • Experience with coding languages including C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
  • Deep expertise in modern web technologies such as React, TypeScript, and Next.js or comparable frameworks.
  • Backend and distributed systems experience using cloud-native architectures.
  • Experience building large-scale consumer-facing products and services.
  • Ability to lead complex cross-organizational initiatives from concept through delivery.
  • Technical leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
  • Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements, including the Microsoft Cloud background check.
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About Microsoft

10,000+ employees

Every company has a mission. What's ours? To empower every person and every organization to achieve more. We believe technology can and should be a force for good and that meaningful innovation contributes to a brighter world in the future and today. Our culture doesn’t just encourage curiosity; it embraces it. Each day we make progress together by showing up as our authentic selves. We show up with a learn-it-all mentality. We show up cheering on others, knowing their success doesn't diminish our own. We show up every day open to learning our own biases, changing our behavior, and inviting in differences. Because impact matters. Microsoft operates in 190 countries and is made up of approximately 228,000 passionate employees worldwide.

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