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Posted date: Dec 05, 2025
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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
OverviewThe Purview Data Governance team’s mission is to deliver a solution for the age of AI that includes data catalog and discovery, enterprise data management, analytics, observability, access and workflows. We are seeking an experienced and self-motivated Principal Software Engineer to join us in our mission of building a market-leading SaaS product for our enterprise data governance customers. The ideal candidate will embody customer obsession, foster a culture of innovation, deep engineering experience with distributed systems, champion collaboration, thrive in a fast-paced, growth-oriented environment, and demonstrate a strong sense of personal drive, ownership and accountability.
Responsibilities
Responsibilities:
Drives a customer-first, live site-first, design-first, and agile team culture to develop, secure and operate cloud services at high scale, throughput, and resilience. Leads and implements design decisions to champion and incorporate scalability, cost optimization, and observability. Develops and maintains a comprehensive architecture and execution plan for the long term.
Creates clarity and leads the definition of priorities and planning of engineering deliverables.Demonstrates a strong dedication to achieving high quality results, in line with customer focus and project timelines.Tackles challenges posed by problems with unclear solutions, timelines, and constraints. Your resilience and resourcefulness will be key in driving the team towards innovative and impactful outcomes.Facilitates alignment within and across all the partner teams on technology and design decisions.Fosters a culture of partnership, respect, and inclusion working within and across teams, roles, and geography.Offers expert technical advice to the leadership team.Mentors and grows other engineers.
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 Python OR equivalent experience.
Prefered Qualifications:
Desire to become an expert in the practice of modern data governance2+ years of experience working on a commercial software productBachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND 10+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, 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 background and Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
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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