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Principal Software Engineer - CTJ - TS/SCI

Microsoft· Software Engineering
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Reston, VA, Washington, DC, Annapolis Junction, MD, Redmond, WA, Atlanta, GA$142.8k - $274.8kfull-timePosted 3w ago

About the role

Principal Software Engineer position focusing on designing and delivering cloud-based solutions for strategic customers, collaborating with cross-functional teams, open-source communities, and Microsoft product teams. Emphasis on modern software practices, cloud technologies, mentoring, and customer-aligned delivery.

Responsibilities

  • Partners with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a set of scenarios.
  • Leads identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.
  • Leads by example and mentors others to produce extensible and maintainable code used across products.
  • Leverages subject-matter expertise of cross-product features with appropriate stakeholders to drive multiple group's project plans, release plans, and work items.
  • Holds accountability as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI), mentoring engineers across products/solutions, working on-call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions.
  • Proactively seeks new knowledge and adapts to new trends, technical solutions, and patterns that will improve availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.

Skills

Required:Software design and architectureMentoring and leadership

Benefits

  • Not specified in the job description.
Last updated Oct 2, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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