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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 · St. Louis, Missouri
Type
Full-time
Level
staff+
Posted

Description

Microsoft is hiring a Principal Software Engineer for its Azure Local AKS team to design and deliver software that automates the provisioning, upgrading, and management of Azure Kubernetes Service clusters in on-premises, multi-cloud, and edge environments. The role owns features from design through production, leads architectural decisions, mentors engineers, and contributes to reliability, security, observability, and performance at scale. It requires a bachelor's degree in computer science or a related technical field plus 6+ years of technical engineering experience, or equivalent experience, and offers a hybrid work arrangement.

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