# Principal Software Engineer

**Company**: Microsoft
**Location**: Redmond, WA
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: USD $165,600 – $296,400 per year
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Ticker**: MSFT
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2283

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## Description

We are seeking a Principal Software Engineer to join the M365 Core team, focusing on Substrate & Work IQ (SWIQ), the trusted data and intelligence platform behind Microsoft 365.

As a Principal Software Engineer, you will personally prototype the next generation of customer experiences across the full incident lifecycle, putting agentic AI to work on real operational problems and getting hands-on experience with Microsoft's newest AI technologies.

Responsibilities:

- Partner with stakeholders to determine user requirements for complex scenarios.

- Provide technical leadership for identifying dependencies and developing design documents.

- Lead by example and mentor others to produce extensible and maintainable code.

- Leverage subject-matter expertise to lead multiple product project plans, release plans, and work items.

- Hold accountability as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI), mentoring engineers and working on-call to monitor system health.

- Proactively seek new knowledge and adapt to new trends, technical solutions, and patterns to improve product availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance.

Qualifications:

- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.

- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements.

Preferred Qualifications:

- Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 12+ years technical engineering experience.

- Distributed systems depth: Hands-on expertise designing and shipping large-scale distributed systems.

- Applied AI/ML: Demonstrated experience applying AI/ML to real production problems.

- Telemetry & big data: Proven ability to work with large-scale telemetry, observability, or big-data pipelines.

- Delivery-led influence: Track record of leading through delivery and technical influence across teams.

- AIOps & incident systems: Experience building AIOps, incident management, monitoring/detection, root-cause diagnosis, or automated mitigation systems.

The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $165,600 – $296,400 per year.

## Skills

### Required
- C
- C++
- C#
- Java
- JavaScript
- Python
- AI/ML
- Distributed Systems
- Telemetry
- Big Data

### Nice to have
- Master's Degree in Computer Science
- Distributed systems depth
- Applied AI/ML
- Telemetry & big data
- Delivery-led influence
- AIOps & incident systems

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