Principal Software Engineer
Technology, Data & Digital · Software & Web Development · Software Engineering · DevOps · Cloud Engineering
In short
Microsoft is looking for a Principal Software Engineer to set the technical direction and own the architecture for the Agent 365 Foundation team's compute platform. This role involves leading multi-team efforts in container orchestration, security, and scaling mission-critical business applications and AI workloads.
Responsibilities
- Set technical direction and own the architecture for platform services and APIs for provisioning, scaling, and securing containerized compute across Azure Container Instances, Service Fabric, and Azure Kubernetes Service.
- Drive multi-team, multi-quarter platform investments from problem statements through design, rollout, and live-site operation, ensuring reliability, security, and compliance.
- Lead the networking, identity, and isolation strategy of the platform, including virtual network integration, subnet delegation, managed identity, and container isolation.
- Drive secure design principles, least-access practices, and formal validation of security invariants.
- Lead efforts using debugging tools, tests, logs, and telemetry for proactive verification and issue resolution.
- Lead incident retrospectives, identify root causes, implement repair actions, and prevent recurrence.
- Take a leading role in the on-call rotation for owned services.
- Drive capacity planning and infrastructure cost efficiency.
- Partner with Azure compute, networking, and identity teams to align platform roadmaps.
- Mentor engineers, raise design and code quality through reviews, and share best practices.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
- OR equivalent experience.
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements.
- Pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
Desired Qualifications
- Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
- OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 12+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
- OR equivalent experience.
- Deep expertise with container technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes, and with Azure compute services such as AKS, Azure Container Instances, Service Fabric, or Virtual Machine Scale Sets.
- Expertise with Microsoft stack technologies, particularly C#, .NET, and core Azure platform services.
- Experience with infrastructure as code, CI/CD, and safe deployment practices (e.g., ARM or Bicep templates and Azure DevOps pipelines).
- Depth in Azure networking concepts including virtual networks, DNS, load balancing, and multi-tenant isolation.
- Proven ownership of high-availability services at scale, including on-call leadership, incident command, and root cause analysis.
- Experience with large-scale observability and diagnostics tooling, such as distributed tracing, metrics, and log analytics.
- Experience with generative AI, agentic workloads, or LLM/ML systems, and with the infrastructure problems they create.
- Demonstrated cross-organizational technical leadership, including architecture and design reviews, mentoring engineers, and driving engineering standards beyond a single team.
Benefits
- USD $142,800 - $274,800 per year (U.S. average base pay range).
- USD $188,000 - $304,200 per year (San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area base pay range).
- Potential eligibility for benefits and other compensation.
- Access to additional benefits and pay information via provided link.
Skills
C++C#JavaJavaScriptPythonDockerKubernetesAKSAzure Container InstancesService FabricVirtual Machine Scale Sets.NETARM templatesBicep templatesAzure DevOpsAzure networkingDNSLoad balancingDistributed tracingLog analytics
#Agent365#A365#Microsoft Dynamics 365#Power Platform#Copilot
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Company
MicrosoftJob Posted
4 days ago
Employment Type
Full Time
Work mode
Hybrid
Salary
US$142,800–274,800 · Negotiable
Experience Level
Senior
Locations
United States
Qualification
Bachelor, Master
Applicants
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