Microsoft

Principal Data Engineer

United States, Washington, Redmond
Salary
$165,600 - $296,400 per year
Level
Principal
Work type
On-site · Washington

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Open. First seen 26 October 2026.

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About the role

Overview We are looking for a Principal Data Engineer to lead the architecture, development, and operation of scalable, reliable data platforms. This role requires deep expertise in ETL, data pipelines, data modeling, and distributed systems, with hands-on proficiency in Apache…

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What this role asks for

Particular to this role

Databricks · Delta Lake

Rare in Microsoft's other 299 open postings.

Standard for data engineering roles

CI/CD · ETL · Python · SQL · Spark

Common in data engineering postings at any company.

Compared with Microsoft's other open jobs.

The team: Software Engineering NEW TEAM

This team is new: its 107 open roles were posted Jul 2 – Oct 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++ (102 of 107), C# (100 of 107), Python (100 of 107), Java (97 of 107), C (96 of 107), JavaScript (88 of 107), Azure (64 of 107)

OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM

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Salary context

10 other open postings titled Principal Data Engineer state a salary: median USD 180,000 to USD 232,925 a year.

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