Microsoft

Principal Software Engineer

Microsoft
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2 days ago
Redmond, WA, USAStaff+
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Base Salary

$143k - $304k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Lead the design, development, and delivery of a critical subsystem in an exabyte-scale security data platform.
  • Define technical strategy, evaluate architecture options, document trade-offs, and own complex design decisions.
  • Ensure systems meet performance, scalability, resiliency, disaster recovery, cost, security, privacy, and compliance objectives.
  • Coordinate dependencies and cross-team delivery, resolving ownership conflicts and aligning schedules.
  • Lead test strategy, security and negative testing, test automation, testability improvements, and defect localization.
  • Mentor engineers and teams on extensible, maintainable, secure, performant, and well-tested code.
  • Review product and test code, designs, automated source-code analysis, and engineering standards.
  • Lead feature-flag and flighting experiments, interpret results, and collaborate with Data Science and Product Management on metrics.
  • Improve AI tools and practices across the software development lifecycle while owning AI-generated assets and Responsible AI controls.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related technical discipline and 6+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in languages including C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python, or equivalent experience.
  • Preferred: 5+ years of experience with distributed systems delivering large-scale, secure, and resilient cloud services.
  • Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements, including the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire or transfer and every two years thereafter.

Benefits

  • Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
  • Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled; the posting will remain open for a minimum of 5 days.

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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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