Principal Software Engineer

About this role

Overview Do you enjoy solving problems, writing software, and working with customers? Do you wake up hoping to find time to learn a bit more about how to containerize compute workloads? Work with high scale data? Or build end-to-end engineering deployment systems? How can you use emerging AI technologies to accelerate developers and solve new challenges? Do you want to join a team where learning about new technology is part of our work every day? The Industry Solutions Engineering (ISE) team is a global engineering organization that has operated Microsoft's Forward Deployed Engineering function for over a decade, working directly with customers to co-engineer solutions to their toughest business challenges. We don't build things and hand them over. We embed with customers, engineer side-by-side, and create real business value together

We operate in small, multidisciplinary teams, enabling tight feedback loops and rapid iteration. Together, we build AI-powered, cloud-based solutions that deliver measurable business outcomes. Our work is powered by Hypervelocity Engineering (HVE), a methodology of applying AI across the full lifecycle to build and ship secure, production-ready solutions from day one, accelerating time to value without sacrificing quality, control, or trust

We collaborate with Microsoft product teams, partners, and open-source communities to create reusable, high-impact solution patterns that contribute to the broader Microsoft platform. 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. We're looking for someone who thrives in working with a variety of technologies, not just Microsoft technology, and enjoys engaging directly with customers on their toughest technical challenges

You will be solving exciting business problems, contributing to open source, and collaborating with Microsoft's most important customers. The

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