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Principal Software Engineer - FDE

Microsoft· Software Engineering
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Hybrid (Multiple Locations), Redmond, WA, Mountain View, CA, Austin, TX, Houston, TX, Chicago, IL, Cambridge, MA, New York, NY, Atlanta, GA$142.8k - $274.8kFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

In the Microsoft Frontier Company Engineering team, you’ll embed within customer teams to solve challenges, shipping production-ready AI-enabled software solutions with a focus on security, quality, and trust. You’ll own end-to-end design and delivery of scalable systems and services, collaborating with multidisciplinary teams and applying the latest AI and software engineering techniques.

Responsibilities

  • Put security first: Build and ship solutions that meet enterprise security standards (threat modeling, secure coding, privacy, and compliance) from design through production.
  • Translate business needs into technical solutions: Partner with stakeholders to define problem statements, success metrics, and architectural approaches that deliver measurable outcomes.
  • Design and lead architecture: Own end-to-end system design for cloud and AI workloads, making sound tradeoffs across reliability, performance, cost, and maintainability.
  • Deliver quickly without sacrificing quality: Use modern engineering practices (CI/CD, automated testing, observability, and progressive delivery) to iterate fast and reduce operational risk.
  • Drive customer success and adoption: Work directly with customer engineering teams to deliver production-ready solutions, unblock delivery, and ensure outcomes are adopted at scale.
  • Build reusable, scalable assets: Create solution accelerators, reference architectures, and code that can be reused across customers and scenarios to maximize impact.
  • Operate effectively in ambiguity: Continuously learn and adapt as technologies and customer priorities evolve; bring clarity, structure, and momentum to complex engagements.
  • Lead and mentor across disciplines: Provide technical direction, coach engineers, and collaborate with product, data, and security partners to deliver as one team.
  • Lead complex delivery end-to-end: Coordinate multiple workstreams, manage dependencies, and raise the bar on reliability and operational excellence for services running in production.
  • Model inclusive, customer-obsessed leadership: Create an environment of trust, accountability, and continuous improvement while representing the company professionally with external stakeholders.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.

Skills

Required:Security-focused software developmentArchitecture design for cloud and AI workloadsCI/CD, automated testing, observability, progressive deliveryStakeholder collaborationCustomer success and adoption
Nice to have:Leadership and mentoring
Last updated Aug 13, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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