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Principal Software Engineer

Microsoft563 open roles

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$142,800 – $274,800 a year
Where
Redmond, WA, United States
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Your applicationOpen nowPrincipal Software EngineerMicrosoft · Redmond, WA, United States

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This job: posted 42 hours ago

Microsoft median: 25 days open

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Overview

Microsoft is a company where passionate innovators come to collaborate, envision what can be and take their careers to levels they cannot achieve anywhere else. This is a world of more possibilities, more innovation, and more openness in a cloud-enabled world. The Copilot, Agents, and Platform (CAP) organization powers mission-critical Microsoft 365 and Dynamics 365 services, including Business Chat, Work IQ, Agent 365, and the agent runtime for the next era of work. Together, we are building the platform that will power Microsoft’s AI experiences for decades to come.

We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer to join our team!

This is an exciting time to join our group and work on products that are highly strategic to Microsoft. Microsoft Agent 365 provides a centralized control plane that enables organizations to observe, govern, and secure AI agents across their enterprise. Dataverse is a proven data platform for securely storing and managing business data at scale, trusted by enterprise customers around the world.

Our team builds the globally distributed services that manage, protect, and optimize the SQL database fleet and compute resources underpinning Dataverse. You will help define the future of this platform and work alongside engineers who thrive on solving complex problems at global scale while maintaining uncompromising standards for quality, security, reliability, and operational excellence.

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees, we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Responsibilities

As a Principal Software Engineer in the Microsoft Dataverse team, you will define and drive the technical strategy for intelligent, autonomous, and globally distributed services that power Dataverse. You will lead through influence, remain hands-on in critical technical areas, raise engineering standards, and partner across disciplines and organizations to deliver durable customer and business outcomes.

  • Define and drive the multi-year technical strategy and architecture for services that manage and optimize Dataverse’s globally distributed database fleet. Translate that strategy into executable roadmaps, milestones, and measurable outcomes.
  • Demonstrate strong end-to-end ownership of critical technical areas—from problem definition and architecture through implementation, deployment, operational health, and long-term evolution. Proactively identify gaps, drive issues to closure, and remain accountable for customer and business outcomes.
  • Create clarity in complex and ambiguous engineering spaces by framing problems, gathering and analyzing data, identifying root causes, evaluating tradeoffs, and converting insights into coherent technical strategies and concrete deliverables.
  • Lead complex initiatives spanning multiple teams and organizations. Align stakeholders, resolve architectural disagreements, establish clear system boundaries and invariants, and manage dependencies across database, service, infrastructure, security, and compliance domains.
  • Effectively manage competing priorities, balancing strategic engineering investments, customer commitments, live-site issues, technical debt, and operational responsibilities while maintaining high standards for quality and execution.
  • Own quality, security, compliance, reliability, and operability by design. Establish automation and engineering practices for validation, safe deployment and rollback, observability, capacity management, incident response, and continuous improvement of mission-critical services.
  • Multiply the effectiveness of the engineering organization by mentoring engineers, reviewing architecture and code, establishing reusable patterns, simplifying systems, and raising the bar for engineering excellence. Define and validate security, reliability, and correctness invariants for both new and existing systems.

Embody our culture and values. As a team working openly, collaboratively, and relentlessly towards a shared goal, we can achieve much more than we can imagine.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

  • 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.

Other Requirements:

Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:

  • Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • 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 PythonOR 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.
  • Experience architecting and delivering large-scale production cloud services, including providing technical leadership across multiple teams and managing complex cross-organizational dependencies.
  • Experience with SQL and enterprise-grade relational database systems, including database administration, query and workload optimization, capacity and resource management, reliability engineering, and automation at fleet scale.
  • Experience designing, building, and troubleshooting scalable, resilient, event-driven systems, including asynchronous processing, failure recovery, observability, controlled flighting, and resource optimization.
  • Demonstrated ability to create clarity in ambiguous problem spaces, set technical direction, build alignment, and influence architecture and execution across organizational boundaries without direct authority.
  • Demonstrated end-to-end ownership from requirements through production deployment, including diagnosing complex cross-service failures using logs, telemetry, correlation IDs, and distributed traces, supported by comprehensive unit, integration, functional, and end-to-end testing strategies.

#AGENT365 #CAP

Software Engineering IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $142,800 - $274,800 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $188,000 - $304,200 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.

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