New 
Principal Software Engineer
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Washington, Redmond | |
 Sep 08, 2025 | |
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OverviewMicrosoft is a company where passionate innovators come to collaborate, envision what can be and take their careers to levels they cannot achieve anywhere else. This is a world of more possibilities, more innovation, more openness in a cloud-enabled world. The Business and Industry Copilots group is a rapidly growing organization that is responsible for the Microsoft Dynamics 365 suite of products, Power Apps, Power Automate, Dataverse, AI Builder, Microsoft Industry Solution and more. Microsoft is considered one of the leaders in Software as a Service in the world of business applications and this organization is at the heart of how business applications are designed and delivered. We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer to join our team in Redmond, WA (on-site). This is an exciting time to join our group and work on something highly strategic to Microsoft. Microsoft Dataverse and the Power Platform Managed Platform provide secure, scalable, and cost-efficient foundations for building AI-powered, governed, and compliant applications at global scale. This team builds platform capabilities and microservices that deliver global scale, security, governance, and managed runtime for customers across Power Platform. You will be part of a team of engineers who thrive on solving complex problems at scale with impeccable quality. 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. Managed Platform is the backbone of the Business and Industry Copilots enterprise adoption strategy, focusing on areas including Managed Security, Governance, Operations, and organizational transformation. As a core leadership team of the Managed Security & Governance group you will handle a variety of high impact projects that move our products forward and help lead engineering and cultural transformation to AI-first. Leverage your passion, intensity, and creativity to shape the product platform underpinning the future of enterprises
ResponsibilitiesGovern through resistance to new AI-first approaches to building and delivering services. Lead architecture and technical direction for Managed Platform services in Power Platform, with emphasis on global scale, reliability, security, privacy, and cost efficiency. Design and build high-scale, low-latency distributed systems on Linux and Kubernetes using Python and FastAPI (or similar), with strong observability and diagnosability. Drive engineering excellence through robust testing and AI eval strategies, automation, safe deployments, and SLO and SLA adherence across services. Operate live services as a DRI, lead incident response and postmortems, and deliver systemic improvements to reduce incident volume and time to mitigate. Partner across Business and Industry Copilots, Power Platform, and other Microsoft teams to align dependencies, land cohesive customer experiences, and unblock delivery. Mentor and elevate engineers through design reviews, code reviews, and both career and technical coaching while fostering an inclusive, learning-oriented culture. Translate product requirements into elegant and resilient designs that are not overly complicated and iterative roadmaps validated with experimentation, telemetry, and continuous customer feedback. | |