Principal Software Engineer | Microsoft Careers

Microsoft

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Redmond, WA Posted 16 days ago $139,900–$274,800 / year
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TL;DR

As a Principal Software Engineer on the Microsoft Garage Team’s Innovation Studio project, you will lead the architectural design and delivery of product capabilities using React, Azure Functions, Microsoft Teams, GitHub, and Azure AI Foundry. Your role involves creating new AI tools to enhance various stages of the software development lifecycle, ensuring secure identity management, and integrating with additional Microsoft first-party tools. You will work on emerging patterns in agentic software engineering, enterprise-grade AI orchestration, and Teams app development while collaborating closely with senior stakeholders to set product strategy. Essential skills include experience with Azure services, GitHub integration, and improving service reliability through observability and automated testing. This role offers opportunities to shape a cutting-edge product that accelerates innovation within organizations by turning employee creativity into measurable business outcomes.

Skills

Azure React Azure Functions GitHub Azure AI Foundry Azure DevOps CI/CD Terraform Python JavaScript TypeScript Kubernetes Docker Prometheus Grafana Git Agile

What you'll do

  • Leads the design and implementation of AI-native development practices throughout the software lifecycle.
  • Oversees the creation and integration of agentic workflows in software engineering processes.
  • Establishes coding standards to ensure code is secure, maintainable, and performs well across platforms.
  • Provides technical leadership on compliance requirements and ensures clear communication within the team.
  • Partners with senior stakeholders to define product strategy for high-importance services or products.
  • Improves service reliability through observability, automated testing, performance analysis, and deployment automation.

What we're looking for

  • 10+ years of technical engineering experience in software development.
  • Experience designing agent orchestration systems and AI workflows.
  • Proficiency with Microsoft Azure services including Functions, Storage, Key Vault.
  • Expertise integrating GitHub, CI/CD systems, and code review platforms.
  • Track record of improving service reliability through observability and testing.
  • Ability to simplify complex technical problems and influence architecture across teams.

Market check

Salary context

This $139,900–$274,800 range sits above 65% of similar postings on FindRole.

Peer median band

$139,900–$257,000

Median floor and ceiling across peers.

Typical midpoint (25–75%)

$177,250–$214,500

Middle half of comparable postings.

Based on 240 comparable postings.

* 240 is the maximum number of comparable postings sampled.

Employer

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 451 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $119,800–$234,700 across 417 roles with salary data.

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