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Posted date: Sep 17, 2025
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Category: Software Engineering
Location: Redmond, WA
Estimated salary: $222,050
Range: $139,900 - $304,200
Employment type: Full-Time
Travel amount: 25.0%
Work location type: 3 days / week in-office
Role: Individual Contributor
Description
Microsoft Teams is the hub for teamwork that integrates all the people, content, and tools your team needs to be more engaged and effective. It is core to modern work, modern life modern education value prop. It is the fastest growing product in Microsoft history and is growing even more rapidly given the need for remote learning, communication, and collaboration.We are seeking a Principal Software Engineer to join our Intelligent Meetings team in Redmond. We are focused on building next generation innovative virtual meeting experiences leveraging AI to break barriers in collaboration. The ideal candidate will be a strong engineer with a passion for delivering high-quality products and exceeding customer expectations. Should have a strong growth mindset, adapt to new trends, technical solutions, and patterns to deliver high quality, easy to use capabilities. This opportunity will allow you to accelerate your career growth, develop deep technical skills, hone your problem-solving abilities, and become adept at designing and implementing scalable solutions.
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.
Provide technical leadership across features, projects and tools, and improve end-to-end solution reliability, resilience and performance.Architect, design, and develop features and solutions with high quality - Partner with teams across the company and drive end-to-end engineering design alignment.Work closely with partners, align priorities, influence key decisions, and create collaborative agreements about sequencing work across teams.Full stack development building client-side features, scaling backend services and prompt engineering to power rich real-time collaboration scenarios.Be customer obsessed, and data driven, maintaining sharp focus on the usage/metrics/fundamentals of the owned features.
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.Other Requirements:
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:
Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.Preferred Qualifications:
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 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 PythonOR equivalent experience.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
Microsoft will accept applications for the role until September 26, 2025.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.
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