Principal Software Engineer

The engineer will shape Azure-native security offerings, influence platform roadmaps, and replace legacy deployment patterns with a smaller, safer control plane. Define the architecture and migration path from proprietary tools to standard .NET Aspire and Azure platform capabilities. Turn deployment, compliance, and security requirements into typed APIs, analyzers, and build gates. Move data residency, rollout, and configuration failures from deployment time to authoring time. Improve the service-team experience through clear diagnostics, safe upgrade paths, and self-service workflows. Use support demand and adoption data to remove recurring friction. Build production-quality control-plane capabilities with clear ownership, strong test strategy, secure defaults, and zero-touch deployment where possible. Drive technical agreements with .NET, Azure, CISO, and service team partners. Resolve dependency boundaries and make end-to-end security, compliance, and operational readiness real before release. Lead design reviews, incident learning, and reusable engineering practices across teams. Grow shared capability in modern cloud development and AI-assisted engineering. 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. 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. 3+ years of experience building cloud-native applications or platform services on Azure, using C# and modern .NET. * Experience designing policy-as-code, infrastructure-as-code, developer tooling, or deployment systems used by multiple engineering teams. * Experience leading technical partnerships across two or more teams, such as Azure, .NET, security, compliance, or service engineering. Software Engineering IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $142,800 - $274,800 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $188,000 - $304,200 per year. Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.