Microsoft
Principal Software Engineer
$143K–$304K
Redmond, WA · On-site · Principal · Full-time · Posted Oct 30, 2026
- Experience
- 6+ years required; preferred qualification states 8+ years with a Master's Degree, with the alternatives stated in the posting.
- Education
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent experience.
About the job
Architects and owns Microsoft Fabric Data Factory data integration products, including pipelines, dataflows, runtime execution, monitoring, and diagnostics, while setting technical direction and supporting reliability at cloud scale.
What you'll do
- Architect end-to-end data integration products, translating customer needs into technical direction and ensuring performance, scalability, and resiliency.
- Lead engineering quality, security, testing, mentoring, and full-lifecycle feature delivery.
- Own live-site reliability through observability, incident response, postmortems, and root-cause fixes.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field and 6+ years of technical engineering experience coding in languages including C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python, or equivalent experience.
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements, including passing the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
Nice to have
- Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field and 8+ years of technical engineering experience, or the stated Bachelor's Degree and TypeScript or Python experience (or equivalent experience).
- Experience with distributed systems, algorithm design, and scalable application architecture.
Pay
USD $142,800 - $274,800 per year (base salary); USD $188,000 - $304,200 per year (base salary)
Tools
C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Python, TypeScript, Microsoft Fabric
AI focus
Improve AI tools and practices across the software development lifecycle, take ownership of AI-generated assets, and experiment to improve capabilities.
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