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Principal Software Engineer

United States, Washington, Redmond💼 Full-time💰 $142,800–$142,800🗓 2026-09-21 → 2026-09-25

Core

Designing Azure-native security offerings, defining architecture for migrating legacy deployment patterns to modern .NET Aspire, and building production-quality control-plane capabilities.

Role type

Principal Software Engineer (Cloud Security & Platform)

Builds

Azure security offerings, control-plane capabilities, typed APIs, analyzers, and build gates.

Domain

Cloud Security, Platform Engineering, .NET Ecosystem

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

Cloud-native application design, Policy-as-code, Infrastructure-as-code, Developer tooling design, Technical partnership leadership, Architecture definition, Migration strategy, API design, Test strategy, Incident learning

Preferred skills

AI-assisted engineering practices, Modern cloud development patterns, Zero-touch deployment implementation

Technologies

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

Responsibilities

Shape Azure-native security offerings and influence platform roadmaps, Define architecture and migration paths from proprietary tools to standard platform capabilities, Turn deployment and compliance requirements into typed APIs and build gates, Drive technical agreements with security and service teams, Lead design reviews and incident learning across teams, Grow shared capability in modern cloud development

Seniority

Principal, hands-on IC with strategic influence

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