Principal Software Engineer

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, more openness in a cloud-enabled world. The Business and Industry Copilots group is a rapidly growing organization that is responsible for the Microsoft Dynamics 365 suite of products, Power Apps, Power Automate, Dataverse, AI Builder, Microsoft Industry Solution and more. Microsoft is considered one of the leaders in Software as a Service in the world of business applications and this organization is at the heart of how business applications are designed and delivered. 

We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer to join our team in Redmond, WA (on-site). 

This is an exciting time to join our group and work on something highly strategic to Microsoft. Microsoft Dataverse and the Power Platform Managed Platform provide secure, scalable, and cost-efficient foundations for building AI-powered, governed, and compliant applications at global scale. This team builds platform capabilities and microservices that deliver global scale, security, governance, and managed runtime for customers across Power Platform. You will be part of a team of engineers who thrive on solving complex problems at scale with impeccable quality. 

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. 

Managed Platform is the backbone of the Business and Industry Copilots enterprise adoption strategy, focusing on areas including Managed Security, Governance, Operations, and organizational transformation. As a core leadership team of the Managed Security & Governance group you will handle a variety of high impact projects that move our products forward and help lead engineering and cultural transformation to AI-first. Leverage your passion, intensity, and creativity to shape the product platform underpinning the future of enterprises

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.
• 6+ years of experience designing and operating large-scale distributed services, ideally on Linux and Kubernetes, including production operations and on-call responsibilities.

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/Additional 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 Python OR 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, Python OR equivalent experience.
• 2+ years of expereince developing deep proficiency in Python and FastAPI for backend services, including performance optimization, testing, and API design. 
• 5+ years technical experience working with large-scale cloud or distributed systems.
• 5+ years of experience in Azure cloud hosting.
• 8+ years of experience with security, governance, compliance, and accessibility in enterprise SaaS. 
• 8+ years of experience building or operating platforms at global scale supporting AI-driven workloads and data science pipelines. 
• 8+ years of experience with container orchestration, experimentation and service shadowing, and safe rollout practices such as feature flags and canary deployments. 
• 8+ years of experience with stream processing and near real-time analytics, caching, and data partitioning strategies as well as compliance requirements such as GDPR, EUDB, etc. 
• 8+ years of experience driving cross-organization alignment with clear written and verbal communication. 
• Strong observability skills including logging, tracing, metrics, dashboards, and data-driven decision making. 
• Passioninate interest in mentorship, inclusive collaboration, and continuous improvement.

Software Engineering IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $139,900 - $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.

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until September 25th, 2025.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.  We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

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• Govern through resistance to new AI-first approaches to building and delivering services. 
• Lead architecture and technical direction for Managed Platform services in Power Platform, with emphasis on global scale, reliability, security, privacy, and cost efficiency. 
• Design and build high-scale, low-latency distributed systems on Linux and Kubernetes using Python and FastAPI (or similar), with strong observability and diagnosability. 
• Drive engineering excellence through robust testing and AI eval strategies, automation, safe deployments, and SLO and SLA adherence across services. 
• Operate live services as a DRI, lead incident response and postmortems, and deliver systemic improvements to reduce incident volume and time to mitigate. 
• Partner across Business and Industry Copilots, Power Platform, and other Microsoft teams to align dependencies, land cohesive customer experiences, and unblock delivery. 
• Mentor and elevate engineers through design reviews, code reviews, and both career and technical coaching while fostering an inclusive, learning-oriented culture. 
• Translate product requirements into elegant and resilient designs that are not overly complicated and iterative roadmaps validated with experimentation, telemetry, and continuous customer feedback.