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Principal Software Engineer - VS Code (GitHub - CoreAI)

Microsoft· Software Engineering
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Redmond, WA$142.8k - $274.8kFull-timePosted 4w ago

About the role

Principal Software Engineer to tackle hard product and platform challenges as VS Code and GitHub Copilot continue to reshape how developers build software. Hands-on technical leadership across core VS Code and Copilot, defining APIs, architecture, and processes to ship with high quality and velocity.

Responsibilities

  • Identify significant product opportunities and systemic engineering problems; set technical direction that balances near-term delivery with long-term product and platform health.
  • Prove approaches through prototypes, critical implementation, testing, and difficult debugging, using hands-on work to guide architectural decisions.
  • Lead cross-team delivery across Microsoft and GitHub, resolving architectural disagreements, clarifying ownership and API boundaries, and enabling teams to deliver independently.
  • Own outcomes beyond release, using adoption, quality signals, evaluations, experiments, and user feedback to guide investment and adjust course.
  • Improve engineering effectiveness across teams through testing strategies, performance work, shared design patterns, and tools for rapid, reliable experimentation.
  • Lead technical discussions in the open, investigate community-reported issues, and work directly with developers and extension authors to shape designs.
  • Mentor senior engineers and technical leaders, helping them develop judgment and take ownership without making yourself a bottleneck.

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, JavaScript, or TypeScript or RUST OR equivalent experience.

Skills

Required:Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related fieldSoftware engineering
Last updated Sep 24, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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