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Principal Software Engineer

Australia, Sydney · Job Posted April 23, 2026
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We are hiring a Principal Software Engineer with deep experience and expertise in designing and delivering solutions using modern software engineering practices and cloud technologies. You will be part of a cross-functional team of software engineers, data scientists, technical program managers, and designers who work side-by-side with high-impact and strategic customers and their engineers to build innovative solutions. As part of our team, you will thrive in working with a variety of technologies, not just Microsoft technology. You will solve exciting business problems, contribute to open source, and collaborate with Microsoft product teams.

Job Responsibility

  • Partners with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a set of scenarios
  • Leads identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform
  • Leads by example and mentors others to produce extensible and maintainable code used across products
  • Leverages subject-matter expertise of cross-product features with appropriate stakeholders to drive multiple group's project plans, release plans, and work items
  • Holds accountability as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI), mentoring engineers across products/solutions, working on-call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions
  • Proactively seeks new knowledge and adapts to new trends, technical solutions, and patterns that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale and shares knowledge with other engineers.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND 9+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • OR 10+ years equivalent experience.

Nice to have

  • Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field regarded highly
  • Available for domestic and occasional international travel (up to 25%)

What we offer

competitive package including a wide range of benefits built around personal needs

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