Microsoft
Principal Software Engineer
$143K–$304K
Redmond, WA +1 · On-site · Principal · Full-time · Posted Sep 23, 2026
- Location
- Redmond, WA
Mountain View, CA - Experience
- 6+ years required; preferred: 8+ years with a Master's Degree, or 12+ years with a Bachelor's Degree; equivalent experience accepted.
- Education
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent experience.
About the job
Leads hands-on architecture and development of a self-service platform that automates infrastructure buildout and deployment across clouds, regions, and environments.
What you'll do
- Design and develop orchestration workflows with dependency management, approvals, durable state, retries, and recovery.
- Build secure, tested production software; partner across teams and own platform reliability and operational improvements.
- Apply AI-assisted engineering workflows with human review, evaluation, testing, and Responsible AI controls; mentor engineers and lead design reviews.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field and 6+ years technical engineering experience coding in listed languages, or equivalent experience.
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements, including the Microsoft Cloud Background Check.
Nice to have
- Master's Degree and 8+ years experience, or Bachelor's Degree and 12+ years experience, or equivalent experience.
- Experience with large-scale distributed systems, cloud platforms, Kubernetes, infrastructure as code, deployment orchestration, AI-assisted development, or cross-team technical leadership.
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, Microsoft Azure, Kubernetes
AI focus
Apply AI agents, coding agents, and automated pull requests to engineering and provisioning workflows, with human review, evaluation, automated testing, security, and Responsible AI controls.
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