Principal Software Engineer

We are hiring a Principal Software Engineer with deep experience and expertise in designing and delivering solutions using modern software engineering practices and cloud technologies. We're looking for someone who thrives in working with a variety of technologies, not just Microsoft technology, and enjoys engaging directly with customers on their toughest technical challenges. You will be solving exciting business problems, contributing to open source, and collaborating with Microsoft's most important customers. The role is a senior individual contributor role on Microsoft technical leadership career path. It combines deep technical skills with the ability to provide leadership at the seniormost levels within Microsoft and at our customers. You will work directly with Dominik Wee, CVP Forward-Deployed Engineering., Demonstrate engineering excellence by staying current on the latest software engineering practices, helping the team embrace new technologies with rigor and consistency, and actively exchanging ideas with leading practitioners across ISE, Microsoft, and the broader industry to raise the bar on how we build and deliver.

Customer technical leadership

Provide customer technical leadership by engaging directly in lighthouse customer engagements, developing a strong understanding of customer business needs, and helping customers adopt the latest Microsoft technologies across the full stack to deliver meaningful business outcomes.

Product roadmap feedback

Provide product roadmap feedback by identifying recurring patterns across customer engagements, building trusted relationships with Microsoft product group leaders, and helping advance the product roadmap through clear, evidence-based insights from the field.

Hands-on technical leadership

Apply hands-on technical skills to advance the capabilities of both our own teams and our customers' teams, and demonstrate the art of the possible through practical problem solving, prototyping, and direct engineering engagement., Required/Minimum Qualifications (RQs/MQs)

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
• OR equivalent experience.

Additional or Preferred Qualifications (PQs)

• Extensive customer-facing experience working directly with senior customer stakeholders at executive-minus-one level (e.g., CTO/CIO/CDO direct reports, Business Unit leaders), with a track record of building trusted-advisor relationships, influencing technology strategy, and translating engineering depth into business outcomes.
• Enjoy travel and are comfortable with travel up to 25%

Our team prides itself on embracing a growth mindset, inspiring excellence, and encouraging everyone to share their unique viewpoints and be their authentic selves. Join us and help create life-changing innovations that impact billions around the world!

At Microsoft, we are seeking people who have a passion for the positive impact technology can have on communities and for making a difference in the world. Within ISE, you will find a wide range of backgrounds, perspectives, personal and cultural experiences which are vital to our success with our customers. It's an informal and flexible work environment and you'll be welcome to work in the way that best enables you to get your job done.

We invest in your health, wellness, and financial future by offering a competitive package including a wide range of benefits built around your personal needs and those close to you., Our team prides itself on embracing a growth mindset, inspiring excellence, and encouraging everyone to share their unique viewpoints and be their authentic selves. Join us and help create life-changing innovations that impact billions around the world!

At Microsoft, we are seeking people who have a passion for the positive impact technology can have on communities and for making a difference in the world. Within ISE, you will find a wide range of backgrounds, perspectives, personal and cultural experiences which are vital to our success with our customers. It's an informal and flexible work environment and you'll be welcome to work in the way that best enables you to get your job done.

We invest in your health, wellness, and financial future by offering a competitive package including a wide range of benefits built around your personal needs and those close to you.

Do you enjoy solving problems, writing software, and working with customers? Do you wake up hoping to find time to learn a bit more about how to containerize compute workloads? Work with high scale data? Or build end-to-end engineering deployment systems? How can you use emerging AI technologies to accelerate developers and solve new challenges? Do you want to join a team where learning about new technology is part of our work every day? The Industry Solutions Engineering (ISE) team is a global engineering organization that has operated Microsoft's Forward Deployed Engineering function for over a decade, working directly with customers to co-engineer solutions to their toughest business challenges. We don't build things and hand them over. We embed with customers, engineer side-by-side, and create real business value together. We operate in small, multidisciplinary teams, enabling tight feedback loops and rapid iteration. Together, we build AI-powered, cloud-based solutions that deliver measurable business outcomes. Our work is powered by Hypervelocity Engineering (HVE), a methodology of applying AI across the full lifecycle to build and ship secure, production-ready solutions from day one, accelerating time to value without sacrificing quality, control, or trust. We collaborate with Microsoft product teams, partners, and open-source communities to create reusable, high-impact solution patterns that contribute to the broader Microsoft platform.