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Principal Software Engineer

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

About the role

Principal Software Engineer responsible for defining the next generation of deployment configuration and policy for Microsoft Security, collaborating across Microsoft Security and Azure to enable secure, self-service deployment experiences and to replace legacy deployment patterns with a smaller, safer control plane.

Responsibilities

  • Define the architecture and migration path from proprietary tools to standard .NET Aspire and Azure platform capabilities. Make the path work for Defender and Microsoft Security today, all of Microsoft over time.
  • Turn deployment, compliance, and security requirements into typed APIs, analyzers, and build gates. Move data residency, rollout, and configuration failures from deployment time to authoring time.
  • Improve the service-team experience through clear diagnostics, safe upgrade paths, and self-service workflows. Use support demand and adoption data to remove recurring friction.
  • Build production-quality control-plane capabilities with clear ownership, strong test strategy, secure defaults, and zero-touch deployment where possible.
  • Drive technical agreements with .NET, Azure, CISO, and service team partners. Resolve dependency boundaries and make end-to-end security, compliance, and operational readiness real before release.
  • Lead design reviews, incident learning, and reusable engineering practices across teams. Grow shared capability in modern cloud development and AI-assisted engineering.

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

Nice to have:Cloud-native applications or platform services on AzurePolicy-as-code / infrastructure-as-code / deployment systemsTechnical partnerships across teams (Azure, .NET, security, compliance, service engineering)
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