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Posted date: Dec 02, 2025
Category: Software Engineering
Location: Redmond, WA
Estimated salary: $222,050
Range: $139,900 - $304,200
Employment type: Full-Time
Work location type: 3 days / week in-office
Role: Individual Contributor
Description
OverviewMicrosoft’s Windows Servicing & Delivery Organization’s mission is to keep billions of Windows devices protected and productive by delivering a seamless and timely servicing experience. The Update Platform team is responsible for creating experiences that ship with the latest version of Windows OS, engage hundreds of millions of users, and drive update and upgrade customer satisfaction.
As the Principal Software Engineer - Windows Update Platform, you will play a key role in securing our customers while keeping a healthy Continuous Delivery experience that makes our customers love Windows. We are looking for an experienced leader that has a passion for delivering world-class designs and implementation that powers the update service. You will have the opportunity to impact every Windows user by building the core of the service. You will collaborate with other parts of the team to deliver a seamless and flexible update platform driven by control from the Cloud. You will be a meaningful part of a growing team that values diversity of thought and recognizes everyone for their personal strengths and desire to learn and grow.
Finally, you will have a wealth of data at your fingertips, provided by our Update Platform Insights team, that will help you understand how our users are interacting with our features and how we can fine tune those features to deliver a silent by default, with control by choice experience.
Microsoft’s Windows Servicing & Delivery Organization’s mission is to keep billions of Windows devices protected and productive by delivering a seamless and timely servicing experience. The Update Platform team is responsible for creating experiences that ship with the latest version of Windows OS, engage hundreds of millions of users, and drive update and upgrade customer satisfaction.
As part of the Update Platform team, you will play a key role in securing our customers while keeping a healthy Continuous Delivery experience that makes our customers love Windows. We are looking for an experienced leader that has a passion for delivering world-class designs and implementation that powers the update service. You will have the opportunity to impact every Windows user by building the core of the service. You will collaborate with other parts of the team to deliver a seamless and flexible update platform driven by control from the Cloud. You will be a meaningful part of a growing team that values diversity of thought and recognizes everyone for their personal strengths and desire to learn and grow.
Finally, you will have a wealth of data at your fingertips, provided by our Update Platform Insights team, that will help you understand how our users are interacting with our features and how we can fine tune those features to deliver a silent by default, with control by choice experience.
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.
Responsibilities
Produces extensible and maintainable code.Supports partnership with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project manager, technical lead) to determine user requirements within teams.Drives identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.Drive multiple group's project plans, release plans, and work items in coordination with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers).Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and guides other engineers across products, working on call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions.Seeks new knowledge 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.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications:
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 PythonOR equivalent experience.Preferred qualifications:Master'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 Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 10+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or PythonOR equivalent experience.Engineering experience in Systems programming – operating systems, driver development or equivalent.Experience in developing, debugging, and maintaining code in object-oriented languages (C++ required). #WSDJOBS
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Software Engineering IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $139,900 - $274,800 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $188,000 - $304,200 per year.
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
This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.
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