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Microsoft · 1 day ago

Principal Software Engineer

Boston, MA

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$140K/yr - $275K/yr

6+ years exp

Microsoft is a global engineering organization that works directly with customers to leverage the latest technologies. They are seeking a Principal Software Engineer with expertise in designing and delivering solutions using modern software engineering practices and cloud technologies, to collaborate with customers and develop innovative solutions.

Agentic AIApplication Performance ManagementArtificial Intelligence (AI)Business DevelopmentDevOpsInformation ServicesInformation TechnologyManagement Information SystemsNetwork SecuritySoftware

Growth Opportunities

No H1B

Responsibilities

Partners with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a set of scenarios

Leads identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform

Leads by example and mentors others to produce extensible and maintainable code used across products

Leverages subject-matter expertise of cross-product features with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to drive multiple group's project plans, release plans, and work items

Holds accountability as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI), mentoring engineers across products/solutions, working on-call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions

Proactively seeks new knowledge and adapts to new trends, technical solutions, and patterns that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale and shares knowledge with other engineers

Embodies our culture and values

Qualification

CC++C#JavaPythonJavaScriptCloud technologiesMentoringProblem-solvingCollaborationAdaptability

Required

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field 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

Microsoft is unable to sponsor a work visa for this role due to the nature of the role's job duties

Preferred

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 Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 12+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience