Principal Software Engineer

Microsoft

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Work type: Hybrid
Location: —
Salary: $142,800–$274,800 / yr
Posted: 6 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live yesterday
Closes: Apr 18, 2027

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Above market

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This role $209k

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This role pays more than 68% of similar roles. Most pay $170,250–$221,850 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $209k versus about $196k 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

Microsoft currently has 711 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · Principal Software Engineer

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The Principal Software Engineer joins the Power BI Distribution & Growth team within the Azure Data engineering organization. In this role, you will provide technical leadership to design and evolve secure, reliable, and highly scalable distributed systems that power growth experiences across Power BI and Microsoft 365 surfaces. You will lead the technical strategy for investments that expand adoption and engagement, solving complex problems in growth, distribution, and personalization. Key responsibilities include conducting architecture reviews, mentoring engineers, and using telemetry and experimentation to identify opportunities. You must possess expertise in storage systems, large-scale computation frameworks, and data lifecycle management. Required technical skills include proficiency in coding languages such as C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python to build cloud services for global data environments.

What does a Software Engineer earn?

Median $196900 from 2634 postings across 153 companies.

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Skills

Power BI Microsoft Fabric Azure C# Python Java C++ JavaScript Azure SQL DB Azure Cosmos DB Azure PostgreSQL Azure Data Factory Azure Synapse Analytics Azure Service Bus Azure Event Grid Distributed Systems Data Engineering Telemetry SQL

What you'll do

Lead the technical strategy, architecture, and execution of Power BI Growth & Distribution investments.
Design and evolve secure, reliable, and highly scalable distributed systems for millions of global users.
Use telemetry and experimentation to identify growth opportunities and improve user activation and retention.
Drive technical excellence through architecture reviews, engineering best practices, and mentorship of technical leads.
Influence the long-term platform strategy for personalized and collaborative analytics experiences.
Lead complex cross-team initiatives to align stakeholders and deliver impactful technical solutions.

What we're looking for

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field and 6+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in languages like C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python (or equivalent experience).
Ability to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire and every two years thereafter.
Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field and 8+ years of technical 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 technical engineering experience with coding in languages like C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python (preferred).
Proven experience architecting hyperscale distributed systems, data platforms, or cloud services (preferred).
Deep expertise in storage systems, large-scale computation frameworks, and data lifecycle management (preferred).
Solid understanding of privacy, security, compliance, and governance requirements in global cloud and data environments (preferred).
Demonstrated ability to drive architectural alignment across large, complex organizations (preferred).

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