Microsoft

Principal Software Engineer - Microsoft Digital

United States, Washington, Redmond · Principal

Sponsorship not specified$143k-$275kDetected 1 day ago

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About the role

We boldly pursue big ideas that power transformational advances at Microsoft and for our customers, while helping Microsoft teams work smarter, faster, and more securely every day.
We are engineers, technology leaders and experts, digital transformation change agents, and customer advocates.
This includes services across campus operations, workplace services, immigration, contracts, litigation, eDiscovery, nonprofits, Elevate, and legal operations.

Partner with PM and business-ops leaders across GWS and CELA to turn ambiguous business problems into clear solution approaches with a defensible build-vs-buy-vs-adopt recommendation.
1P product partnership. Own the relationships with Microsoft first-party product teams (Copilot, M365, Azure AI, Dynamics, etc.), representing our requirements, influencing roadmaps, and unblocking dependencies.
Build-vs-buy stewardship. Bring rigor and honesty to make-vs-buy decisions; be willing and able to say, "don't build this" and route to a 1P or 3P solution when that serves the business better.
Documented build-vs-buy framework applied to at least the top strategic programs.
At least one significant "adopt/buy instead of build" decision that saves cost or accelerates delivery.

Microsoft Digital employees have deep technical and business expertise, customer insights, and a clear point of view that comes from first-hand, large-scale experience with Microsoft and industry solutions.
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

5+ years experience as a technology or solution architect, setting technical direction for enterprise-scale platforms, with focus on security and scale.
Prior depth in at least one of the domains - digital workplace or legal tech, along with the appetite to master unfamiliar domains.
credible in senior technical rooms.
Strong grounding in AI/agentic architecture and modern cloud (Azure) patterns.
Gravitas to challenge and align senior engineering managers on technical direction.
https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay
This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer.

Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more.

equal opportunity employer.
If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status

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