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Principal Software Engineer (Customer & Product Engineering)

United States, Multiple Locations, Multiple Locations💼 Full-time🗓 2026-07-02 → 2026-10-02

Core

Designing, developing, and operating an observability-focused platform service for cloud workloads while ensuring production reliability and creating reusable engineering assets.

Role type

Principal Software Engineer (Customer & Product Engineering)

Builds

Observability platform capabilities, production services, and reusable technical assets/tools for Azure.

Domain

Cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, observability, and enterprise software.

Required skills

C#, .NET, Azure, microservices, APIs, event-driven architectures, Kubernetes, containerized workloads, CI/CD pipelines, observability, monitoring, telemetry, incident response, service reliability engineering, enterprise customer engagement, architecture decision influence.

Preferred skills

C, C++, Java, JavaScript, Python, large-scale distributed systems design, cloud-native application operations.

Technologies

Azure, Kubernetes, C#, .NET, C, C++, Java, JavaScript, Python

Responsibilities

Design and evolve observability platform services; support live production environments via on-call and incident investigation; develop reusable engineering assets and tools; collaborate with product teams to drive cross-service improvements; strengthen technical capability across the field organization.

Seniority

Principal, hands-on IC with mentorship

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