Principal Software Engineer, Dynamics Customer Experience Applications

Microsoft

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Hybrid
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$142,800–$274,800 / yr
Posted
25 days ago
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Confirmed live today
Closes
Mar 31, 2027

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TL;DR · Principal Software Engineer, Dynamics Customer Experience Applications

Principal Software Engineer - Dynamics Customer Experience Applications team The Principal Software Engineer joins the Dynamics Customer Experience Applications team to provide technical leadership for the architecture, design, and operation of intelligent capabilities within Dynamics 365 Contact Center. This role involves solving ambiguous engineering problems across distributed cloud services, applied AI, data, security, and reliability. You will define technical strategies for globally distributed services, lead the implementation of critical platform components, and manage end-to-end ownership of production-ready systems. Key responsibilities include mentoring engineers and driving technical strategy for AI-enabled customer experience capabilities. Required skills include proficiency in C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python. You will utilize Azure, WebSockets, gRPC, and GitHub-based CI/CD workflows to build scalable, event-driven systems for real-time communication and media-processing workflows within a 24x7 business SaaS environment.

What does a Software Engineer earn?

Median $197400 from 2576 postings across 150 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Define and evolve the end-to-end architecture for complex, AI-enabled customer experience capabilities.
  • Lead the implementation of critical platform components and produce high-quality production code.
  • Provide technical leadership for applied AI systems, including model selection, evaluation, and lifecycle management.
  • Own quality, security, compliance, and operability by design for mission-critical services.
  • Lead the resolution of high-severity live-site issues and perform root-cause analysis.
  • Drive technical strategy across teams to translate business needs into multi-release engineering plans.
  • Mentor engineers and establish reusable patterns to raise standards for engineering excellence.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field and 6+ years of technical engineering experience in languages like C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python (or equivalent).
  • Experience architecting and delivering large-scale, production cloud services with technical leadership across multiple teams or complex dependencies (preferred).
  • Experience designing and troubleshooting scalable, resilient, event-driven systems including asynchronous processing, observability, and media-processing workflows (preferred).
  • Expertise in building and operating highly available services on Azure or other major cloud platforms, including containers, networking, and security.
  • Experience shipping generative AI, large language models, or agentic capabilities with rigorous evaluation, safety, and lifecycle practices.
  • Demonstrated experience with WebSockets, gRPC, GitHub-based CI/CD workflows, and Azure Service Fabric (preferred).
  • Proven ability to communicate complex technical topics, build alignment among senior stakeholders, and mentor engineers.
  • Ability to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire and every two years thereafter.

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