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Principal Software Engineer

Microsoft

Multiple Locations, United States, U.S.
Full-Time
Posted Sep 07, 2025
Up to 100% work from home

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About the role

Are you passionate about developing top-notch solutions for Azure Container Instances customers? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you! Azure Container Instances is at the forefront of innovation, leveraging cutting-edge technologies to deliver dependable solutions to Azure customers.

Responsibilities

  • Partners with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a set of scenarios.
  • Identify dependencies and generate design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.
  • Build extensible and maintainable code used across products.
  • Build scalable systems and services for managing traffic in and out of Azure Container Instances.
  • 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.
  • Gain a working understanding of Microsoft businesses and collaborate with mentors and leaders to contribute to cohesive, end-to-end experiences for our users.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, GO, C, C++, C#, Java, or Python OR equivalent experience.
  • 6+ years of experience with cloud compute related projects.
  • 5+ years of experience working in large scale distributed systems.

Benefits

  • Industry leading healthcare
  • Educational resources
  • Discounts on products and services
  • Savings and investments
  • Maternity and paternity leave
  • Generous time away
  • Giving programs
  • Opportunities to network and connect

About the Company

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more.

Job Details

Salary Range

$139,900 - $274,800/yearly

Location

Multiple Locations, United States, U.S.

Employment Type

Full-Time

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