Principal Software Engineer

Microsoft

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Work type: Hybrid
Location: —
Salary: $142,800–$274,800 / yr
Posted: 2 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live today
Closes: Mar 24, 2027

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This role $209k

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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

Microsoft currently has 668 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · Principal Software Engineer

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As a Principal Software Engineer on the Feedback Hub team, you will lead technical investments in feedback actionability, diagnostics, and developer workflows. You will be responsible for defining the technical strategy for the ecosystem while building systems that enrich, triage, route, and correlate customer feedback with engineering signals to improve investigation efficiency. Your daily work involves developing tools to connect customer-reported issues with internal engineering systems, improving feedback quality through signal enrichment, and grouping related issues to accelerate resolution. You will provide technical leadership and mentorship across the platform. The role requires proficiency in programming languages such as C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python. This position addresses the specific challenge of transforming raw customer feedback into actionable data for product teams by integrating diagnostics and telemetry into automated developer workflows.

What does a Software Engineer earn?

Median $196750 from 2004 postings across 147 companies.

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Skills

C C++ C# Java JavaScript Python Telemetry Workflow Automation Data-driven Systems Diagnostics Collection Signal Enrichment

What you'll do

Define technical strategy for feedback actionability across the Feedback Hub ecosystem.
Build developer workflows that connect customer feedback, diagnostics, and engineering systems.
Improve feedback quality through diagnostics collection, signal enrichment, and issue correlation.
Group and prioritize related customer issues to accelerate investigation and resolution.
Increase visibility into customer pain points, resolution progress, and customer outcomes.
Provide technical leadership and mentorship across the feedback and diagnostics platform.

What we're looking for

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field (or equivalent experience).
6+ years of technical engineering experience coding in languages such as C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
Experience designing and delivering large-scale platforms, services, or engineering systems (preferred).
Solid technical leadership and cross-organizational collaboration skills (preferred).
Experience with diagnostics, telemetry, developer productivity, workflow automation, or data-driven systems (preferred).
Ability to drive ambiguous problems from concept through execution and measurable customer impact (preferred).

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