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Principal Software Engineer

United States, Washington, Redmond💼 Full-time💰 $142,800–$142,800🗓 2026-09-22 → 2026-09-29

Core

Drive engineering initiatives from inception to shipping, creating and optimizing code to improve service performance, maintainability, and reliability.

Role type

Principal Software Engineer (Full Stack / Cloud)

Builds

Mission-critical cloud applications, large-scale high availability services, and full-stack applications.

Domain

Commercial software engineering, cloud infrastructure, developer tools.

Required skills

C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Python, full-stack development, cloud application architecture, high availability systems design, code optimization, debugging, refactoring, system design, observability, monitoring at scale.

Preferred skills

Experience with Azure Data Fabric, developer tools.

Responsibilities

Design and implement extensible, maintainable code and architecture; mentor engineers through code and design reviews; collaborate with product managers and customers to identify improvements; participate in live operations for timely response and stakeholder satisfaction; drive consistency in monitoring and operations at scale.

Seniority

Principal, hands-on IC with mentorship responsibilities.

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