Microsoft

Principal Software Engineer

United States, Multiple Locations, Multiple Locations
Salary
$142,800 - $274,800 per year
Level
Principal
Work type
On-site · Multiple Locations

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Open. First seen 26 October 2026.

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About the role

Overview Join the team behind Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets (VMSS) – the engine powering hyperscale services across AI, cloud-native apps, and mission-critical workloads in Azure. We're building the next generation of resilient, intelligent infrastructure, and we're looking…

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What this role asks for

Particular to this role

Agile

Rare in Microsoft's other 93 open postings.

Standard for software engineering roles

Python

Common in software engineering postings at any company.

Compared with Microsoft's other open jobs.

The team: Software Engineering NEW TEAM

This team is new: its 56 open roles were posted Oct 12–21, and Microsoft had none in it before. You would be one of its first people.

WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS

C# (56 of 56), C++ (55 of 56), Java (55 of 56), Python (54 of 56), C (53 of 56), JavaScript (51 of 56), Azure (37 of 56)

OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM

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Salary context

59 other open postings titled Principal Software Engineer state a salary: median USD 200,000 to USD 263,900 a year.

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