Microsoft · 6 hours ago
Principal Software Engineer
Redmond, WA
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$140K/yr - $275K/yr
6+ years expMicrosoft is a leading technology company that is driving operational excellence across the Microsoft Cloud. The Principal Software Engineer will design solutions to enhance quality, reliability, and security, while leveraging AI-powered automation to deliver measurable customer impact.
Agentic AIApplication Performance ManagementArtificial Intelligence (AI)Business DevelopmentDevOpsInformation ServicesInformation TechnologyManagement Information SystemsNetwork SecuritySoftware
Responsibilities
Partner across multiple product groups to apply subject-matter expertise in distributed systems design practices, interactions between cloud technology layers and components, basic dependencies at scale, and the code that defines infrastructures
Lead by example and mentors' others to produce extensible and maintainable code used across products
Develop and evangelize insights, best practices, and standards that can be applied to improve system, platform, and/or product development and operations across the business
Drive continuous improvements in the architecture, code, features, operations and comprehensive use scenarios of products by leveraging end-to-end technical expertise
Make improvements to the product fundamentals and architecture, share knowledge and code, always looking for ways to make what we build useful to multiple teams and products
Demonstrates end-to-end expertise in distributed systems design, interactions between cloud technology layers
Provide technical leadership in test maturity reviews, static analysis reviews, meetings, on-call rotations, and incident responses throughout product development and operations cycles
Provides deep business and technical expertise as required to resolve major incidents
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python + OR equivalent experience
Preferred
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 10+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python + OR Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python. + OR equivalent experience
Experience working with large-scale distributed systems (e.g., cloud computing providers, SaaS services, etc., ideally with millions or billions of users) or similarly complex environments
Awareness of, and ability to reason about, modern distributed software design patterns and cloud systems architecture, including microservices, containers, load-balancing, queuing, caching
Experience in building, shipping and operating reliable solutions
Hands-on experience building production-grade AI/ML or LLM-powered systems, including event-driven architectures, agent-based workflows, or intelligent automation embedded into developer workflows (IDE, PRs, CI/CD)
Demonstrated experience designing and operating large-scale distributed platforms where reliability, safety, and governance are first-class concerns
Strong background in platform engineering with a focus on internal developer platforms, shared services, and ecosystems used by many teams
Company
Microsoft
Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
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$1MKey Investors
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Leadership Team
Satya Nadella
Chairman and CEO
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