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Principal Software Engineer

Microsoft

$139,900 - $304,200
Oct 30, 2025
Redmond, WA, US
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Microsoft is looking to improve development agility, quality, and overall system health by enhancing their deployment ecosystem for both cloud and on-premise environments.

Requirements

  • Proficiency in system architecture and design skills, with ability to make high-impact technical decisions balancing scalability, resilience, and agility
  • Experience as a technical leader across multiple teams or org boundaries, influencing architecture and driving alignment across partner teams
  • Experience with CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and release management systems
  • Proficient with continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) systems, with proven experience architecting safe, scalable, and automated rollout workflows across thousands of services
  • Hands-on experience improving deployment agility while maintaining security, compliance, and operations across large engineering ecosystems
  • Experience integrating observability, telemetry, and health signals into deployment workflows to enable automated decision-making and rollback triggers
  • technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C-Sharp, Java, JavaScript, or Python

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement enhancements to our deployment ecosystem
  • Work closely with architects and partner teams to drive impactful improvements to our engineering workflows and infrastructure
  • 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
  • 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

Other

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Microsoft will accept applications for the role until November 13, 2025