Microsoft

Principal Software Engineer

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13 hours ago
Redmond, WA, USAStaff+
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Base Salary

$143k - $304k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Own complex, high-impact projects from requirements and architecture through implementation, testing, deployment, adoption, and live-site operations.
  • Write substantial production code, lead critical component implementation, solve difficult engineering problems, and maintain deep knowledge of system architecture and code.
  • Define the architecture and long-term technical direction for critical data security platform areas across multiple services and engineering teams.
  • Lead cross-team technical alignment, including designs, interfaces, dependency contracts, implementation plans, prioritization, and production readiness.
  • Drive reliability, security, privacy, operational quality, automated testing, telemetry, service health, safe deployment, rollback, threat modeling, and security controls at cloud scale.
  • Multiply organizational technical effectiveness through design and code reviews, mentoring, engineering excellence, and technical leadership.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related technical field and 6+ years of technical engineering experience with coding, or equivalent experience.
  • 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 experience, or bachelor’s degree and 12+ years of experience, or equivalent experience.
  • Preferred: 8+ years designing, building, and operating scalable highly available cloud services or distributed systems, including production ownership, automated testing, and CI/CD practices.
  • Preferred: 5+ years leading technical architecture across multiple engineering teams or organizations.
  • Preferred: experience with secure policy evaluation, authorization, access-control systems, authentication, data protection, and secure coding practices.
  • Preferred: experience building applications with LLMs and generative AI technologies, including agent orchestration, prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation, fine-tuning, or model evaluation.

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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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