New 
Principal Software Engineer
 Microsoft | |
remote work
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 United States, Washington, Redmond | |
 Oct 24, 2025 | |
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OverviewMicrosoft's Cloud Operations and Innovation (CO+I) team builds and operates Microsoft datacenters, which in turn power Microsoft's cloud business. We anticipate and provide capacity for continuous scale. The CO+I Engineering team (CO+IE) delivers services, applications, and automation supporting datacenter planning, construction, and operation. We own a large portfolio of services, including workflows that enable predicable, lowest cost datacenter construction, telemetry systems that drive high availability and optimized energy usage, and task and performance management applications that help our operation run as efficiently as possible. CO+I Engineering is a competitive advantage for Microsoft, and an important pillar in its cloud success. 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. *This role is located either in one or all hub locations - Atlanta, GA, Washington, D.C., Redmond, WA, San Antonio, TX or Phoenix, AZ.*Relocation support will be provided, and successful candidates must relocate or reside within 50 miles of the hub office location.*This role is eligible for hybrid or remote work, up to 50%.
ResponsibilitiesWe are looking for a passionate, innovative, high energy individual contributor who can deal with ambiguity and challenge the status-quo to deliver automation capabilities that power the planning and execution efforts, drive workflow improvements and build solutions to assist in the delivery of large-scale data centers through efficient management of cost and schedule. You will: Own complex, critical services and components end-to-end. Lead design and implementation of scalable, secure, and reliable systems, make architecture decisions, define service boundaries.Author design documents, present tradeoffs and decisions to leadership, and provide status/health signals with clarity and accountabilityLead technical strategy and roadmaps. Translate business objectives into engineering plans, set technical direction for a product area, decompose ambiguous problems into executable work, and drive multirelease roadmaps with measurable outcomes.Establish and champion best practices for code quality, testing, observability, performance, availability, and operational excellence (including (Designated Responsible Individual) DRI/oncall ownership, SLOs/SLIs, incident response, and postmortems)Design for resiliency and cost efficiency, leverage Azure and Microsoft services where appropriate; instrument services with telemetry to drive datainformed iterationWrite high quality, maintainable, reusable code following SOLID principles.Unblock others, perform deep design and code reviews, coach senior engineers, and multiply team impact through reusable frameworks, patterns, and libraries.Partner with PM, Design, Data/Applied Science, and other engineering teams, manage dependencies, influence stakeholders to converge on pragmatic, highimpact solutions.Build automated test strategies (unit, integration, endtoend), CI/CD pipelines, and safe deployment practices; use canarying/feature flags to derisk releases.Identify opportunities to integrate Copilot/agentic workflows or platform primitives to improve user and developer experiences. Share learnings and code assets developed with the CO+I engineering team. | |