Microsoft
Principal Software Engineer
$143K–$304K
Redmond, WA · On-site · Principal · Full-time · Posted Sep 21, 2026
- Experience
- Required: 6+ years of technical engineering experience coding, or equivalent experience. Preferred alternatives: 8+ years with a Master's Degree, 12+ years with a Bachelor's Degree, or equivalent experience. Also preferred: 3+ years building cloud-native applications or platform services on Azure using C# and modern .NET.
- Education
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent experience.
About the job
Defines technical direction and builds a secure, reusable deployment configuration and policy control plane for Microsoft Security and Azure.
What you'll do
- Lead the architecture and migration from proprietary tools to .NET Aspire and Azure platform capabilities.
- Build typed APIs, analyzers, build gates, and self-service workflows that address deployment, compliance, and security requirements.
- Drive cross-team technical agreements, design reviews, incident learning, and shared engineering practices.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field and 6+ years of technical engineering experience coding, or equivalent experience.
- Ability to pass the Microsoft background and Microsoft Cloud background checks upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
Nice to have
- Master's Degree and 8+ years of technical engineering experience, or Bachelor's Degree and 12+ years, or equivalent experience.
- 3+ years building cloud-native applications or platform services on Azure using C# and modern .NET; experience with policy-as-code, infrastructure-as-code, developer tooling, deployment systems, or cross-team technical partnerships.
Pay
USD $142,800 - $274,800 per year (base salary); USD $188,000 - $304,200 per year (base salary)
Tools
.NET Aspire, Azure, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Python
AI focus
Grow shared capability in AI-assisted engineering.
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