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Work type: On-site
Location: Redmond, WA
Salary: $142,800–$274,800 / yr
Posted: 45 days ago
Closes: Oct 18, 2026
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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Similar $180k

This role $209k

$106k most similar roles pay here $293k

This role pays more than 76% of similar roles. Most pay $152,150–$208,800 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $209k versus about $180k for comparable roles.

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Microsoft Corporation is a global technology leader producing software, hardware, and cloud services including Windows, Office 365, Azure cloud platform, Xbox gaming, and Surface devices. Industry: Software & Cloud Computing

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The Principal Software Engineer role involves leading the migration from a legacy deployment SDK to .NET Aspire by designing publishing hooks and planning an incremental cutover while ensuring coexistence of old and new systems. This position requires driving adoption across organizational boundaries, collaborating with Azure platform and .NET partner teams to enhance deployment capabilities, and embedding compliance and standards into the toolchain through analyzers and CI gates. Key responsibilities include owning architecture decisions for deployment configuration, evaluating build-vs-contribute tradeoffs, leading design reviews, and shaping a seamless developer experience by eliminating specialized SDKs and tools. The role demands expertise in .NET, Azure, and related technologies, with a focus on building machine-readable interfaces to integrate AI agents and human engineers into the same control plane.

Skills

.NET Aspire .NET Core Azure CI/CD Terraform Kubernetes Docker Prometheus Grafana PostgreSQL Python Go MCPservers structuredAPIs

What you'll do

Design migration strategy from legacy SDK to .NET Aspire for seamless coexistence.
Define publishing hooks and plan incremental cutover for deployment capabilities.
Drive adoption of new deployment standards across organizational boundaries.
Encode compliance and security policies into toolchain using .NET analyzers and CI gates.
Own architecture decisions for deployment configuration domain, focusing on standardization.
Build machine-readable interfaces to unify AI agent and human engineer workflows.

What we're looking for

Design migration from legacy deployment SDK to .NET Aspire.
Define publishing hooks and plan incremental cutover for coexistence.
Drive adoption of new deployment capabilities across organizational boundaries.
Encode compliance and deployment standards into the toolchain using analyzers.
Own architecture decisions for deployment configuration domain, evaluate tradeoffs.

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