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Principal Software Engineer - Windows Cloud Division

United States, Washington, Redmond💼 Full-time🗓 2026-08-17 → 2026-09-26

Core

Leads architecture, design, and implementation of large-scale cloud microservices, driving engineering best practices and mentoring engineers to build performant, reliable, and secure services at global scale.

Role type

Principal Software Engineer (Cloud/Platform)

Builds

Large-scale cloud microservices, platforms, and applications

Domain

Cloud computing, distributed systems, microservices architecture

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

Cloud architecture design, microservices implementation, system reliability engineering, cross-team leadership, technical mentoring, AI-assisted development workflows, observability and monitoring at scale, integration testing strategies, performance optimization, secure coding practices

Preferred skills

Experience with C#, Java, C, C++, Python, JavaScript, data-driven approaches to customer needs, fostering innovation and technical excellence culture

Technologies

C#, Java, C, C++, Python, JavaScript, cloud platforms, microservices frameworks, AI coding tools

Responsibilities

Lead identification of dependencies and development of design documents for products and platforms; mentor engineers across products to produce extensible and maintainable code; drive multiple group's project plans and release plans; monitor system/product/service for degradation and downtime; improve test coverage and implement integration tests; resolve problem areas across multiple Microservices; champion AI-assisted software development for coding, testing, and debugging.

Seniority

Principal, hands-on IC with strategy & mentorship

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