New 
Principal Software Engineer
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Washington, Redmond | |
 Nov 11, 2025 | |
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OverviewAs a Principal Software Engineer in the Substrate Deployment team, you will lead solutions that improve development agility, quality, and overall system health. You will design and implement enhancements to our deployment ecosystem, helping teams ship faster and safer across both cloud and on-premise environments. You will work closely with architects and partner teams to drive impactful improvements to our engineering workflows and infrastructure. This opportunity will allow you to accelerate your career growth, engage in architectural improvements that shape the future of deployment, and gain hands-on experience with large-scale deployment systems across both cloud and on-premise platforms.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. | |