Hiring: Principal Software Engineer Company: Microsoft Location: Redmond, WA Job Posted Time: 2026-09-11 21:46:55 Target Skills & Keywords : Azure, Compliance, Kubernetes About the job Required Skills: •Partners with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for one or more complex scenarios. •Provides technical leadership for the identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform. •Leads by example and mentors others to produce extensible and maintainable code used across the company. •Leverages deep subject-matter expertise of cross-product features with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to lead multiple product's project plans, release plans, and work items. •Holds accountability as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI), mentoring engineers across products/solutions, working on-call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions. •Proactively seeks new knowledge and adapts to new trends, technical solutions, and patterns that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale and shares knowledge with other engineers. Qualifications: •Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8 Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!