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Principal Software Engineer

Microsoft

$139,900 - $304,200
Aug 19, 2025
Redmond, WA, USA
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Azure Container Instances is at the forefront of innovation, leveraging cutting-edge technologies to deliver dependable solutions to Azure customers. The team is looking for a Principal Software Engineer to work across various layers of the technology stack, from enhancing user experience to building scalable distributed cloud services.

Requirements

  • 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, GO, C, C++, C, Java, or Python
  • 6+ years of experience with cloud compute related projects.
  • 5+ years of experience working in large scale distributed systems.
  • 10+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, GO, C, C++, C, Java, or Python
  • 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, GO, C, C++, C, Java, or Python
  • 3+ years of experience leading projects technically from end to end.
  • 3+ years experience with networking and with containers.

Responsibilities

  • Partners with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a set of scenarios.
  • Identity dependencies and generate design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.
  • Build extensible and maintainable code used across products.
  • Build scalable systems and services for managing traffic in and out of Azure Container Instances.
  • 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.
  • Gain a working understanding of Microsoft businesses and collaborate with mentors and leaders to contribute to cohesive, end-to-end experiences for our users.

Other

  • Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role.
  • Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
  • collaboration is at the heart of our team, and you will work alongside a diverse group of individuals who embrace challenges, value continuous learning, and thrive in a collaborative environment.
  • mentorship opportunities, career growth prospects, and involvement in high-impact areas of the business.
  • Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more.