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Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft

Department: Software Engineering

Compensation · Listed in posting

$142,800 – $274,800/yr

Setup
Hybrid
Location
Redmond, Washington
Type
Full-time
Level
staff+
Posted

Description

Microsoft is hiring a Principal Software Engineer to lead technical work across cloud infrastructure, secure workspaces, trusted data access, and secure execution of AI-agent workloads. The role involves designing and shipping production software, advancing platform infrastructure and AI-assisted automation, investigating security issues, mentoring engineers and researchers, and partnering with Product and Engineering to define a roadmap. Candidates need a bachelor's degree in computer science or a related technical field and at least six years of technical engineering experience with coding in languages such as C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python, plus the ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and government security screening requirements.

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