New 
Principal Software Engineer
 Microsoft | |
relocation assistance, remote work
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 United States, Washington, Redmond | |
 Sep 29, 2025 | |
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OverviewDoes pioneering new and innovative ways to reimagine and transform end-user productivity across the breadth and depth of Microsoft's global workforce sound exciting to you? Are you passionate about building the frontier firm and shaping the blueprint of an AI-first organization, driving innovation and showcasing an employee experience blueprint that inspires customers and partners to navigate their digital transformation? If so, Microsoft Digital (MSD) is an excellent place for you to grow your career. Microsoft Digital (MSD)'s mission is to power, protect, and transform the employee experience at Microsoft around the world. We are driving AI transformation for the company, leveraging the latest technologies to empower Microsoft employees with the tools and services that define both the physical and digital future of work. Come build community, explore your passions, do your best work and be a part of the team within Microsoft Digital (MSD), the team that innovates, creates, and delivers the vision for Microsoft's employee experience, corporate and legal affairs, global real estate products, and runs Microsoft's internal network and infrastructure, plus builds campus modernization and hybrid solutions. As a Principal Software Engineer, you will lead the design and development of the core network management and operations architecture for one of the largest enterprise networks in the world. Leveraging existing and industry-leading systems and agentic AI, this role is at the forefront of reimagining how to infuse AI-driven acceleration into every layer of the technology stack and business processes, driving transformative change across the organization. You will architect and deliver a seamless framework that empowers frontier firm execution for networking solutions, supporting employees, engineers, program managers, and sourcing engineers at a truly global scale. Your work will be instrumental in ensuring 99.99% availability, reliability, and performance for mission-critical systems. Join us to shape the future of enterprise networking and set new standards for innovation and operational excellence. This position is located at the Redmond campus, with 3 days per week work in the office and 2 days per week work from home. Relocation assistance is available. Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.
ResponsibilitiesPartners 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 (e.g., project managers) 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 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.Defines system-level architecture and works across stakeholders to drive alignment and adoption. | |