Principal Software Engineer

Microsoft's Health and Life Sciences team is dedicated to empowering healthcare organizations to achieve their goals and improve patient care. The HLS Platform team aims to create an efficient and connected healthcare ecosystem built on the Microsoft Cloud, empowering everyone across the healthcare journey to collaborate, communicate, and innovate together to provide better experiences for clinicians, staff, and patients.

We are seeking a Principal Software Engineer to join the Dax Core team, a strategic part of the HLS Platform. This role is central to reducing clinician effort and enhancing patient outcomes by integrating AI into daily workflows with minimal friction. The team operates in a fast-paced, learning-rich environment at the forefront of AI development, focusing on integrating cutting-edge solutions rather than building them from scratch.

As a Principal Software Engineer, you will lead the design and development of AI-integrated services that streamline clinician workflows. You will collaborate across teams to ensure production-grade quality, scalability, and security in healthcare solutions. Your work will involve applying software design principles, managing live site operations, and contributing to cross-team initiatives that deliver impactful AI-centric services for both internal and external Microsoft customers. While the team builds AI models, this role emphasizes integrating advanced AI capabilities into clinician workflows, leveraging Microsoft's AI ecosystem and trusted third-party solutions to deliver real-world value in healthcare settings.

Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Responsibilities:

Responsibilities include:

• Partners with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements and incorporate insights into designs. Lead the incorporation of continuous feedback loops to measure customer value and usage patterns.
• Lead architecture discussions, create proposals, and work together with other team members. Ensure system architecture meets security and compliance requirements while taking observability, reliability and global scaling into account.
• Own delivery of new features and services end-to-end, including relevant cloud infrastructure changes. Produce maintainable and testable code at high quality. Provide expertise in coding and validation strategy, and ensure code meets quality standards.
• 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 (e.g., project managers) 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.
• Primary owner within the team of the upcoming FedRamp medium system deployment
• Embody our culture and values.

Qualifications:

Minimum Qualifications:

• 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.
• Proven experience in designing, developing, and operating distributed systems and/or services in the cloud.
• Experience in Stakeholder communication.

Other Requirements:

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.
• This position requires verification of citizenship due to citizenship-based legal restrictions. Specifically, this position supports United States federal, state, and/or local United States government agency customers and is subject to certain citizenship-based restrictions where required or permitted by applicable law. To meet this legal requirement, and as a condition of employment, the successful candidate's citizenship will be verified with a valid passport.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Understanding of AI technologies / models and fundamentals.
• Proven ability to tackle complex technical issues when running large scale cloud services.
• Experience with implementing, monitoring and operating software employing Gen AI.

Software Engineering IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $139,900 - $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. Find additional benefits and pay information here: US corporate pay information | Microsoft Careers

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until November 17th, 2025.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form .

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