Principal Software Engineer

Microsoft • Redmond, WA

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About The Position

You’ll be part of the Canvas Designer Client team, building the core authoring experience that empowers makers to design and customize apps on an intuitive, flexible canvas. You’ll deliver a modern, high-performance UI and advanced features like coauthoring, responsive layouts, and seamless integration with data sources and connectors. Your work will enable creators to build rich, enterprise-grade applications without code, driving productivity and innovation across the Power Platform. We are looking to hire a Principal Software Engineer. As a Software Engineer, you’ll write and maintain high-quality code for the Canvas Designer client, building UI components and features that make app creation seamless. You’ll debug complex issues, optimize performance for large-scale apps, and collaborate with designers and PMs to ship responsive layouts and coauthoring capabilities. Every day, you’ll work with modern frameworks, review pull requests, and ensure integrations with connectors and data sources are secure and reliable. This opportunity will allow you to accelerate your technical growth by building complex, high-performance UI components and solving scalability challenges. You will deepen your expertise in modern frameworks and copilot integrations as you work hands-on with cutting-edge technologies in the Power Platform ecosystem. You will also sharpen your collaboration and design skills by partnering closely with PMs and UX designers to deliver intuitive, maker-friendly experiences. 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.

Requirements

• 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 OR equivalent experience.
• 4+ years of experience in coding, debugging, algorithm design, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role.
• Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR Master'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 OR equivalent experience.
• Experience in developing full stack web applications – from front end to back end.
• Experience with React.
• Experience with LLMs, AI agent frameworks, prompt engineering, and Copilot Studio is a plus.
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills, with a passion for customer impact and product quality.

Responsibilities

• Collaborates with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a scenario.
• Drives identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.
• Creates, implements, optimizes, debugs, refactors, and reuses code to establish and improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI).
• Leverages subject-matter expertise of product features and partners with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to drive a workgroup's project plans, release plans, and work items.
• Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and guides other engineers by developing and following the playbook, working on call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions, alerting stakeholders about status and initiates actions to restore system/product/service for simple and complex problems when appropriate.
• 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.

Benefits

• Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Principal