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Principal Software Engineer

Microsoft

$139,900 - $304,200
Sep 3, 2025
Redmond, WA, USA • Pittsburgh, PA, USA • Reston, VA, USA • Mountain View, CA, USA • Atlanta, GA, USA
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Help Microsoft define the next generation of technologies and features available on GPUs and Displays, building and maintaining foundational components that power display functionality across the Windows ecosystem.

Requirements

  • 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • 4+ years of Windows OS architecture, driver models, and memory management or similar experience in other operating systems.
  • Experience with Windows Display Driver Model (WDDM) and various other display technologies like HDR, HDMI/DisplayPort, DisplayID/EDID etc.
  • Experience as a deeply technical leader shipping large systems software projects.
  • Experience with systems programming in the kernel as well as user mode Graphics APIs like Direct3D/OpenGL/Vulcan.
  • User and kernel mode debugging skills utilizing various tools like Windbg/Visual Studio etc.

Responsibilities

  • Work with industry partners to identify new opportunities for driving the display ecosystem forward with critical (and exciting) new features.
  • Collaborate with internal and external partners to understand the user requirements as well as hardware capabilities, define the OS abstractions to expose new features/capabilities and deliver end-to-end solutions for our customers.
  • Build a deep technical ownership over the feature spaces you work in, and your expertise will help other teams - both inside and outside of Microsoft - deliver valuable products built on your work.
  • 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.
  • 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.

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.
  • 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.