Principal Software Engineer

Microsoft

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Remote

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Work type: Remote
Location: Remote
Salary: $142,800–$274,800 / yr
Posted: 2 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live today
Closes: Mar 21, 2027

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Similar $206k

This role $209k

$127k most similar roles pay here $291k

This role pays more than 57% of similar roles. Most pay $180,375–$231,000 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $209k versus about $206k for comparable roles.

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About Microsoft

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

Microsoft currently has 644 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · Principal Software Engineer

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As a Principal Software Engineer on the Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets team, you will design, develop, and operate highly scalable, resilient, and customer-focused cloud services. You will own features end-to-end from design and implementation through deployment and operations using agile development and continuous deployment practices. Your daily work involves solving complex technical challenges across the Compute platform while driving service excellence in scalability, availability, security, reliability, disaster recovery, and performance. You will champion engineering best practices through code reviews, testing, monitoring, and automation. The role requires proficiency in programming languages including C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python. This position focuses on building the next generation of resilient infrastructure for cloud-native applications and mission-critical workloads to solve distributed systems challenges at hyperscale within the Azure compute platform.

What does a Software Engineer earn in Remote?

Median $202482 from 350 postings across 56 companies.

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Skills

Azure C C++ C# Java JavaScript Python Distributed Systems Cloud-native Agile Automation Monitoring Scalability

What you'll do

Design, develop, and operate highly scalable and resilient cloud services for Azure infrastructure.
Solve complex technical challenges related to large-scale compute platforms.
Own features end-to-end from initial design and implementation through deployment and operations.
Ensure service excellence in scalability, availability, security, reliability, disaster recovery, and performance.
Champion engineering best practices through code reviews, design reviews, testing, monitoring, and automation.
Deliver high-quality solutions using agile development and continuous deployment practices.

What we're looking for

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field and 6+ years of engineering experience with coding in languages like C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
Ability to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check every two years.
Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field and 8+ years of engineering experience with coding in languages like C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python (preferred).
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field and 12+ years of engineering experience with coding in languages like C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python (preferred).

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