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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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As a Principal Software Engineer on the IC3 Platform team, you will provide hands-on technical leadership for the Buildout Efficiency initiative. You will architect and develop an infrastructure orchestration platform designed to transform declarative service definitions into automated deployment pipelines and coordinated provisioning workflows across compute, networking, identity, certificates, monitoring, and capacity dependencies. Your daily work involves writing and reviewing production code, defining integration contracts, and implementing AI-assisted engineering workflows with human review and safety controls. You will utilize languages such as C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python to build tools for large-scale distributed systems. The role focuses on solving the complex problem of making service expansion into new clouds and geographic regions a repeatable, self-service process while ensuring operational reliability through telemetry, automated testing, and robust recovery from partial failures.
What does a Software Engineer earn?
Median $196750 from 2011 postings across 148 companies.
Lead the architecture and development of a self-service infrastructure buildout platform for cloud expansion.
Design distributed workflows featuring dependency ordering, durable state tracking, and automated recovery from failures.
Write and review production code while establishing automated testing and secure deployment practices.
Partner with internal teams to define requirements, ownership boundaries, and readiness signals for service deployments.
Develop and integrate AI-assisted engineering workflows and coding agents into provisioning processes.
Build security, privacy, compliance, and auditability features into the infrastructure orchestration platform.
Manage operational reliability through telemetry, incident response, and performance metric tracking.
Mentor engineers and lead cross-team design reviews to translate technical strategy into milestones.
What we're looking for
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field and 6+ years of technical engineering experience in languages like C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
Ability to pass Microsoft Cloud background checks every two years.
Master's Degree in Computer Science and 8+ years of experience, or a Bachelor's Degree and 12+ years of experience (preferred).
Experience architecting, developing, and operating large-scale distributed systems on Microsoft Azure or similar cloud platforms (preferred).
Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, infrastructure as code, and automated deployment pipelines (preferred).
Familiarity with Microsoft Ev2 or comparable large-scale deployment orchestration systems (preferred).
Experience designing infrastructure orchestration with dependency management, safe deployment practices, and recovery from partial failures (preferred).
Experience with AI-assisted development, technical leadership, and reducing manual engineering effort through reusable tooling (preferred).
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Azure Functions
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C#
JavaScript
C++
C
CI/CD
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Infrastructure as Code
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Key Vault
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