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Principal Software Engineer

Microsoft

$139,900 - $274,800
Oct 31, 2025
Redmond, WA, US
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Microsoft is looking to solve the problem of leveraging and optimizing generative AI models to provide grounding data from various public and enterprise data sources, and to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more.

Requirements

  • 6+ years of experience building generative AI applications or services.
  • 6+ years of experience with the Power Platform or M365 Enterprise development.
  • Coding experience in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C-Sharp, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • Experience with full stack or backend development, successfully shipping services through multiple releases.
  • Knowledge of software engineering principles and practices
  • Experience with cloud-based technologies and services
  • Experience with AI and machine learning technologies

Responsibilities

  • Collaborates with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a scenario.
  • Drives identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.
  • Creates, implements, optimizes, debugs, refactors, and reuses code to establish and improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI).
  • Drives creation and conducting of experimentation to determine the effectiveness of changes, monitors developments for prototyping and testing products, and interprets results from experimentation.
  • Leverages subject-matter expertise of product features and partners with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to drive a workgroup's project plans, release plans, and work items.
  • Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and guides other engineers by developing and following the playbook, working on call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions, alerting stakeholders about status and initiates actions to restore system/product/service for simple and complex problems when appropriate.
  • 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.

Other

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience
  • Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements
  • Ability to work 3 days/week in-office
  • 0-25% travel required
  • Must pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter