Hiring: Principal Software Engineer Company: Microsoft Location: Redmond, WA Job Posted Time: 2026-09-10 21:46:56 Target Skills & Keywords : Azure, Compliance, Kubernetes, SAFe, containerd About the job Required Skills: •Sets technical direction and owns the architecture for the platform services and APIs that provision, scale, and secure containerized compute across Azure Container Instances, Service Fabric, and Azure Kubernetes Service. •Drives multi-team, multi-quarter platform investments from ambiguous problem statements through design, staged rollout, and live-site operation, and holds the resulting systems to Microsoft's reliability, security, and compliance bar. •Leads efforts on using debugging tools, tests, logs, telemetry, and other methods, and proactively leads verification of assumptions while developing code before issues occur in production. Leverages minimal telemetry data, triangulates issues, and resolves them with minimal iterations. •Leads incident retrospectives to identify root causes of problems, the implementation of repair actions, and the identification of mechanisms to prevent incident recurrence, and takes a leading role in the on-call rotation for the services the team owns. 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!