CrawlJobs Logo
Microsoft Corporation Logo Microsoft Corporation · IT - Software Development

Principal Software Automation Engineer

United States, Mountain View 139900.00 - 274800.00 USD / Year · Job Posted February 03, 2026
Apply Position
Job Link Share

Job Description

Microsoft Silicon Cloud Hardware Infrastructure Engineering (SCHIE) is the team behind Microsoft’s expanding Cloud Infrastructure and responsible for powering Microsoft’s “Intelligent Cloud” mission. SCHIE delivers the core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft's over 200 online businesses including Bing, MSN, Office 365, Xbox Live, Skype, OneDrive and the Microsoft Azure platform globally with our server and data center infrastructure, security and compliance, operations, globalization, and manageability solutions. Our focus is on smart growth, high efficiency, and delivering a trusted experience to customers and partners worldwide. We are seeking a Principal Software Automation Engineer to define, scale, and govern automation standards across HPC infrastructure, operational services, and Azure-connected platforms. This is a high-impact player/coach role responsible for setting the technical vision of the Automation Center of Excellence (CoE), serving as the organization’s escalation point for complex automation challenges, and growing a high-performing automation team as scope and funding mature. The role combines hands-on delivery with strategic leadership to reduce operational toil, improve reliability, and accelerate delivery across on-prem HPC and cloud-integrated environments supporting Silicon Development.

Job Responsibility

  • CoE Leadership & Technical Authority: Own the end-to-end automation strategy for HPC, operational platforms, and Azure integrations. Define reference architectures, standards, and coding methodologies. Serve as the highest-level technical escalation point for automation, reliability, and integration challenges across the org
  • Roadmaps & Standards: Create and maintain multi-year automation roadmaps aligned to business priorities. Establish coding standards, testing strategies, code quality, security baselines, and operational readiness criteria adopted across teams
  • Team Leadership: Build, mentor, and technically lead a software automation team over time. Set hiring bar, role definitions, and career paths
  • coach senior engineers
  • lead by example through hands-on contributions
  • Hands-on Engineering (Principal IC): Architect, design, implement, and operate production-grade automation platforms for HPC infrastructure and cloud services
  • Operational Automation at Scale: Eliminate manual and error-prone work by codifying provisioning, imaging, patching, validation, break/fix, incident response, and self-healing remediation workflows
  • Platform & Service Integrations: Design robust API-first, event-driven, and asynchronous integrations across internal platforms for HPC services, and Azure-native services
  • ETL & Data Engineering: Build and evolve data pipelines that ingest, transform, and validate telemetry, logs, metrics, and operational signals. Enable reliability analysis, capacity forecasting, cost optimization, and executive reporting
  • Azure Automation & Governance: Lead infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD pipelines, identity and access automation (RBAC), policy enforcement, secrets management, and monitoring with security-by-default and compliance-aware practices
  • Reliability & Observability: Define SLOs/SLIs for critical services
  • standardize logging, metrics, and tracing
  • implement automated detection, alerting, and recovery to improve availability and reduce MTTR
  • Cross-Org Influence: Partner with infrastructure, Cloud, CAD, security teams to align priorities, unblock dependencies, and drive adoption of CoE standards and platforms
  • Technical Reviews & Decision Making: Lead architecture and design reviews, assess trade-offs, and make durable technical decisions that balance reliability, velocity, cost, and risk

Requirements

  • 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
  • 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

Nice to have

  • 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 12+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience
  • 10+ years building production software, automation platforms, or infrastructure tooling
  • 7+ years of experience in a technical lead role
  • Problem-solving skills and a collaborative attitude
  • Exceptional oral and written communication skills with a proven ability to present complex technical information to leadership
  • Team player, collaboration skills, and positive attitude
  • Coding skills (e.g., Python, Go, C#, Java) with testing and CI/CD rigor
Microsoft Corporation - All Job Offers

Looking for more opportunities?

Search for other job offers that match your skills and interests.

Suggested Tags: Frontend Developer Secretary Talent Manager Salesforce Administrator Data Analyst
Similar Jobs for

Principal Software Automation Engineer

8 matching positions

Senior Software Engineer and Principal Software Engineer - Power Point AI Team

The PowerPoint team is embarking on an exciting new chapter - evolving a product...
Location
Location
United States , Redmond
Salary
Salary:
119800.00 - 234700.00 USD / Year
https://www.microsoft.com/ Logo
Microsoft Corporation
Expiration Date
Until further notice
Flip Icon
Requirements
Requirements
  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience
  • Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role
  • Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter
  • 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
  • 8+ years of experience in backend service engineering, including work on high-scale infrastructures
  • Proficiency in one or more systems programming languages such as C#, C++
  • 1+ years of experience in software engineering, designing and developing systems (and APIs) that deploy and integrate with AI models
  • 2+ years of experience working with rich telemetry, making data driven decisions, and carrying out rapid experimentation
  • 2+ years of experience building software for scale, performance, and reliability
  • Academic or industry experience with building, finetuning, deploying or building eval-driven systems utilizing the models (any category)
Job Responsibility
Job Responsibility
  • Lead design and delivery of complex, scalable AI features ensuring resilience and exceptional user experience
  • Drive technical strategy and architecture decisions across multiple services, influencing partner teams and aligning with compliance and security requirements
  • Champion modern engineering practices, including AI-driven approaches, automation, and cloud-native patterns, across the full development lifecycle
  • Mentor and guide engineers, fostering technical excellence and continuous improvement in security, reliability, and performance
  • Collaborate cross-org to solve challenging technical problems, streamline processes, and reduce operational costs while improving live-site health
  • Design and implement scalable backend services optimized for machine learning workflows and large language model integration
  • Develop and maintain evaluation-driven systems that leverage text and multimodal inputs (e.g., images) to power visual-creation experiences
  • Build and optimize APIs and infrastructure to support high-performance model inference and experimentation at scale
  • Collaborate with product, ML, and design teams to integrate models into user-facing features, ensuring seamless functionality and performance
  • Conduct model evaluations and experiments, analyze results, and iterate on improvements to enhance accuracy and user experience
  • Fulltime
Read More
Arrow Right

Principal Software Automation / Test Engineer

We are seeking an AI-savvy Principal QA Test Engineer to transform how we test a...
Location
Location
United States , Santa Clara
Salary
Salary:
147000.00 - 237500.00 USD / Year
paloaltonetworks.com Logo
Palo Alto Networks
Expiration Date
Until further notice
Flip Icon
Requirements
Requirements
  • M.S./B.S. degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent military experience required.
  • 10+ years of experience in QA/Test Automation Engineering with demonstrated impact on product quality and team practices.
  • 2+ years of hands-on experience with AI/ML technologies, including LLMs, prompt engineering, and AI-assisted development workflows.
  • Proven track record of building autonomous testing systems or AI-powered quality engineering tools.
  • Intermediate to Expert level experience with REST API driven automation using Python or Go.
  • Deep expertise in cybersecurity, cloud networking, or distributed systems test, including expert knowledge of TCP/IP, DNS, and SSL/TLS.
  • Experience with Identity Technologies such as Azure AD, Okta, or Ping Identity.
  • Experience with cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP) and cloud networking architectures (VPCs, subnets, security groups, NAT).
  • Experience with Windows/Linux/MAC Networking and Security Features.
  • Expertise in REST API testing, web UI automation (Selenium, Playwright, Puppeteer), and cloud-native application testing.
Job Responsibility
Job Responsibility
  • Design and implement autonomous QA workflows using AI agents and LLM-based frameworks to achieve continuous, intelligent test execution across multiple services.
  • Develop AI-augmented test infrastructure enabling scalable, context-aware testing that reflects real-world deployment scenarios.
  • Build AI-powered test generation systems that automatically create comprehensive test suites from requirements, specifications, and production telemetry.
  • Participate in system design to ensure quality, observability, and testability are built-in throughout the feature development lifecycle.
  • Provide technical leadership in browser security, cloud orchestration, distributed systems, and AI-assisted quality engineering across multi-team quality initiatives.
  • Mentor junior and mid-level engineers on AI/ML testing techniques, prompt engineering, and modern quality practices
  • lead adoption of new testing methodologies and measure impact.
  • Collaborate with Development, SRE, Product Management, and Technical Marketing to align quality strategy with business outcomes and establish quality standards.
  • Enhance test strategies, automation, and build infrastructure with feedback and analysis from real-world customer deployments.
  • Stay current with AI/ML advancements and translate them into practical testing innovations like agentic workflows, multimodal testing, and AI-powered observability.
What we offer
What we offer
  • restricted stock units
  • bonus
  • Fulltime
Read More
Arrow Right

Principal Software Automation Test Engineer

We are seeking an AI-savvy Principal QA Test Engineer to transform how we test a...
Location
Location
United States , Santa Clara
Salary
Salary:
147000.00 - 237500.00 USD / Year
paloaltonetworks.com Logo
Palo Alto Networks
Expiration Date
Until further notice
Flip Icon
Requirements
Requirements
  • M.S./B.S. degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent military experience required
  • 10+ years of experience in QA/Test Automation Engineering with demonstrated impact on product quality and team practices
  • 2+ years of hands-on experience with AI/ML technologies, including LLMs, prompt engineering, and AI-assisted development workflows
  • Proven track record of building autonomous testing systems or AI-powered quality engineering tools
  • Intermediate to Expert level experience with REST API driven automation using Python or Go
  • Deep expertise in cybersecurity, cloud networking, or distributed systems test, including expert knowledge of TCP/IP, DNS, and SSL/TLS
  • Experience with Identity Technologies such as Azure AD, Okta, or Ping Identity
  • Experience with cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP) and cloud networking architectures (VPCs, subnets, security groups, NAT)
  • Experience with Windows/Linux/MAC Networking and Security Features
  • Expertise in REST API testing, web UI automation (Selenium, Playwright, Puppeteer), and cloud-native application testing
Job Responsibility
Job Responsibility
  • Design and implement autonomous QA workflows using AI agents and LLM-based frameworks to achieve continuous, intelligent test execution across multiple services
  • Develop AI-augmented test infrastructure enabling scalable, context-aware testing that reflects real-world deployment scenarios
  • Build AI-powered test generation systems that automatically create comprehensive test suites from requirements, specifications, and production telemetry
  • Participate in system design to ensure quality, observability, and testability are built-in throughout the feature development lifecycle
  • Provide technical leadership in browser security, cloud orchestration, distributed systems, and AI-assisted quality engineering across multi-team quality initiatives
  • Mentor junior and mid-level engineers on AI/ML testing techniques, prompt engineering, and modern quality practices
  • lead adoption of new testing methodologies and measure impact
  • Collaborate with Development, SRE, Product Management, and Technical Marketing to align quality strategy with business outcomes and establish quality standards
  • Enhance test strategies, automation, and build infrastructure with feedback and analysis from real-world customer deployments
  • Stay current with AI/ML advancements and translate them into practical testing innovations like agentic workflows, multimodal testing, and AI-powered observability
  • Fulltime
Read More
Arrow Right

Principal Software Engineer in Test (Automation & AI)

We're scaling the Prisma SASE Test team and seeking Test Engineers with an Autom...
Location
Location
United States , Santa Clara
Salary
Salary:
147000.00 - 237500.00 USD / Year
paloaltonetworks.com Logo
Palo Alto Networks
Expiration Date
Until further notice
Flip Icon
Requirements
Requirements
  • 8+ years of experience
  • Understanding of computer networks and protocols
  • Automation skills - Python - Backend , JavaScript, Playwright - Frontend
  • Strong Python
  • for backend validations with experience in building tools, frameworks and reporting
  • Experience with Playwright or similar browser automation
  • Built and led automation frameworks for a team
  • CI/CD pipeline experience (Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions)
  • Understanding of Containers, Kubernetes and Orchestration
  • Cloud platforms: AWS, Azure, or GCP
Job Responsibility
Job Responsibility
  • Great opportunity to work on AI assisted automation initiatives
  • AI-Assisted Automation Initiatives: Design and implement AI-powered test generation using LLMs to create test cases from requirements, API specs, and user stories
  • Build intelligent test selection systems that predict which tests to run based on code changes (ML-based test impact analysis)
  • Develop self-healing test frameworks that use AI to detect and adapt to UI/API changes automatically
  • Create anomaly detection pipelines to identify flaky tests and performance regressions without manual triage
  • Leverage AI agents to automate exploratory testing and generate edge-case scenarios
  • Core Test Engineering: Develop and execute sophisticated software tests and frameworks to validate Prisma SASE Functionality and Scale
  • Provide Thorough Technical Leadership in the areas of Cloud Based Orchestration, Cloud delivered Security, Cloud Networking and Automation Design
  • Participate in system design so that Quality Assurance is considered throughout the entire lifecycle of the Prisma Access Feature Development
  • Develop and/or Enhance Automated test Infrastructure to enable building Scalable & Flexible tests
What we offer
What we offer
  • Restricted stock units
  • Bonus
  • Fulltime
Read More
Arrow Right

Principal Software Engineer, CoreAI

The CoreAI AI Platform team is seeking a Principal Software Engineer in Redmond,...
Location
Location
United States , Redmond
Salary
Salary:
142800.00 - 304200.00 USD / Year
https://www.microsoft.com/ Logo
Microsoft Corporation
Expiration Date
Until further notice
Flip Icon
Requirements
Requirements
  • 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, Python or equivalent experience.
Job Responsibility
Job Responsibility
  • Lead the architecture and implementation of large-scale platform services that support complex engineering and AI workflows in distributed cloud environments
  • Build internal tooling and automation that improve productivity for engineers and researchers across experimentation, deployment, and operational workflows
  • Design platform capabilities that make data easier to discover, access, and use in secure, governed, and auditable ways
  • Drive operational excellence through improvements in reliability, observability, deployment safety, and incident readiness
  • Partner across teams to resolve cross-cutting technical problems and align architecture, engineering standards, and long-term investments
  • Mentor engineers, contribute to technical reviews, and help raise the engineering bar across the organization
  • Fulltime
Read More
Arrow Right

Principal Software Engineer

The Principal Software Engineer will be a thought leader on architecture and dev...
Location
Location
United States , Massachusetts
Salary
Salary:
200000.00 - 250000.00 USD / Year
apollo-solutions.com Logo
Apollo Solutions
Expiration Date
Until further notice
Flip Icon
Requirements
Requirements
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or a related discipline
  • 8+ years of professional software development experience using Python or another object-oriented language, financial services exposure is a plus
  • 4+ years of experience leading design or architecture of large-scale production systems
  • 3+ years of experience developing large, high-performance, distributed systems
  • 3+ years of experience building high-performance cloud native solutions on public cloud (AWS preferred)
  • 3+ years of experience in container technologies like Kubernetes and Docker
  • 2+ years of experience in building resilient CI/CD pipelines, strong knowledge of Git, and familiarity with a DevOps platform like GitLab
  • 1+ years of experience with Helm and Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform preferred)
  • strong in computer science fundamentals like data structures, algorithm design and complexity analysis
  • ability to write elegant code, and comfortable with picking up new technologies independently
Job Responsibility
Job Responsibility
  • Work closely with members of the Research group to review and define requirements for the compute platforms, workflow and observability systems, and multiple services (such as Discovery, AI and the others)
  • Provide expert level design that ensures the solution to be scalable, cost effective and to have low maintenance
  • Lead technical design discussions within the team to gather feedback, discuss the merits and risks of different approaches, and reach consensus on the target architecture
  • Develop high quality solutions in both on premise environments and AWS Cloud using Python and other languages
  • Develop Infrastructure-As-Code solutions using Terraform, develop the automated build and deploy pipelines with unit and integrated tests to ensure high quality and efficient operations
  • Provide guidance to other team members on development tasks
  • Promote high quality code via code reviews
  • Provide production support to prevent disruptions to investment processes
  • Fulltime
Read More
Arrow Right

Principal Software Engineer - Java Backend

We're looking for a Principal Software Engineer with a passion for solving probl...
Location
Location
India , Bengaluru
Salary
Salary:
Not provided
onetrust.com Logo
OneTrust
Expiration Date
Until further notice
Flip Icon
Requirements
Requirements
  • Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, Engineering, or related technical or business field
  • 8+ years of professional software engineering/development experience
  • Extensive hands-on experience and expertise in object-oriented design methodology and application development using Java/J2EE, Design Patterns, Spring MVC, SQL, Web services
  • Experience with elastic search and data streaming tools like Kafka
  • Good understanding of web services and SOA related standards like REST/OAuth/JSON
  • A competent understanding of code and script (Python, Bash)
  • Moderate experience with SQL and NoSQL databases
  • Agile development (Scrum, XP, or Pair Programming) experience
  • Ability to use a wide variety of open-source technologies and cloud services (Azure, Google Computer, or Amazon Web Services)
  • Recent development experience using Drupal, Ember, Angular 8+, Java 7+, or Python
Job Responsibility
Job Responsibility
  • Develop web and mobile interfaces for product module or new prototypes using HTML, CSS, JavaScript/Typescript and/or design, develop, and unit test applications deployed to MS Azure while assisting with cloud application architecture using Drupal, Python, Core Java, REST, and the Spring ecosystem
  • Achieve at least 80% code coverage or per the revised standards set by the team
  • Work closely with UX, Product Managers and/or Product Owners, as well as other developers to contribute to planning and grooming sessions and drive team's discussions on system architecture and component design
  • Support the team to ensure all committed stories for the sprint are completed per the sprint goal
  • Work toward reducing total number of defects in the module/product to industry standards by catching and fixing issues early in development
  • Ensure critical and high priority CII's are delivered per SLA
  • Conduct peer reviews to improve code quality
  • Help junior developers follow development testing, exploratory testing, AI testing and/or test automation
  • Help build high-performing teams, grow and mentor the technical skills within the team and create development opportunities for them
What we offer
What we offer
  • Comprehensive healthcare coverage
  • Flexible PTO
  • Equity RSUs
  • Annual performance bonus opportunities
  • Retirement account support
  • 14+ weeks of paid parental leave
  • Career development opportunities
  • Company-paid privacy certification exam fees
  • Fulltime
Read More
Arrow Right

Principal Software Engineer (CDSS Cloud Services)

Our Team: We are the App-ID Cloud team. Our engineering team is provided with an...
Location
Location
United States , Santa Clara
Salary
Salary:
147000.00 - 237500.00 USD / Year
paloaltonetworks.com Logo
Palo Alto Networks
Expiration Date
Until further notice
Flip Icon
Requirements
Requirements
  • BS/MS in Computer Science or Computer Engineering or equivalent military experience required
  • 8+ years of software engineering experience, with a significant portion dedicated to designing and operating large-scale distributed systems in a cloud-native environment
  • Practical experience building and deploying AI agents or multi-agent workflows using frameworks like LangChain, LangGraph, CrewAI, or Semantic Kernel
  • Solid programming skills in GoLang, Python or PHP
  • Solid knowledge and skills on Linux
  • Rich Experience with Microservices architecture (Kubernetes, GKE, EKS, AKS, Docker, Serverless, etc)
  • Experience in leading and doing projects end to end
  • Solid knowledge of web servers/proxies such as NGINX, envoy
  • Hands-on experience with SQL and No-SQL DB technologies such as MySQL, Redis, BigTable, BigQuery
  • Experience with the queuing system such as RabbitMQ or Kafka or PubSub
Job Responsibility
Job Responsibility
  • Participate in the design and implementation of threat prevention & App-ID cloud services for public cloud and private cloud features
  • Participate in all phases of the product development cycle, from definition, design, through implementation and test
  • Provide real-time security services to customers
  • Work closely with peers across different teams and disciplines to shape solutions and integrate with other parts of the product
  • Contribute to team-wide efforts - code reviews, design reviews, technical and architectural decisions
  • Establish a clear technical and architectural vision for key projects
  • Work with PLM on new feature requirements
  • Work with QA and DevOps on new release deployments
  • Work with security researchers and data scientist on new feature requests
  • Fulltime
Read More
Arrow Right