Overview

We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer to join the Power Pages team. You will provide technical direction and architecture leadership across high-scale, secure, and reliable services that power external websites built on Power Pages. You will collaborate closely with Product, Design, and Engineering Leadership to shape both the product’s vision and its technical future. Microsoft Power Platform is a suite of business applications platform — Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, Copilot Studio, and Power Pages—that enables organizations to build applications, automate workflows, analyze data, and create secure external websites with minimal code. Power Pages is deeply integrated with Microsoft Dataverse and the rest of Power Platform, making it ideal for customer-, partner-, and citizen-facing scenarios where security, reliability, and scalability are paramount.

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employee 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

• Technical Direction & Architecture: Define and drive end‑to‑end architecture for services and features, ensuring scalability, resilience, observability, and security at global scale.
• Design and Code the solutions to build highly scalable, secure and reliable systems.  
  Technical Leadership & Mentorship: Guide and mentor engineers; set high engineering standards; review designs and code; foster a culture of quality, inclusion, and continuous improvement.
•  Design & Code Reviews: Provide rigorous design reviews and code feedback to improve performance, reliability, and secure-by-default practices.
•  Cross‑functional Collaboration: Partner with Product Management, Design, and Engineering Leadership to align roadmaps, make trade‑offs, and deliver customer-centric outcomes.
• Operational Excellence: Champion best practices in CI/CD, rollout strategies, incident response, post‑mortems, and data‑driven decision making.
• Security & Compliance: Embed threat modeling, secure coding, and privacy-by-design into development workflows; ensure compliance with enterprise and regulatory requirements. 

Qualifications

Required Qualifications: 

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 10+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • OR equivalent experience.
    
    
• Programming Languages: Deep expertise in one or more of C++, C#, or Java; strong fundamentals in algorithms, data structures, and systems design.
• Web Technologies: Proficiency with HTML and JavaScript; understanding of modern front‑end patterns and performance practices. 
• Distributed Systems: Proven experience architecting and operating distributed services (microservices, messaging, caching, data consistency, failover, multi‑region deployment).
• Scale, Reliability, Security: A track record of building highly scalable, reliable, and secure cloud services/products at global scale (availability, latency, capacity planning, SLOs/SLIs, zero‑trust principles).
• Leadership & Influence: Ability to lead through influence, drive technical strategy, and align diverse stakeholders across product, design, and engineering.

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.

 Preferred Qualifications: 

• Experience with Azure services (compute, networking, storage, identity), Dataverse, and integration patterns across Power Platform.
• Hands‑on ownership of observability stacks (telemetry, tracing, alerting) and performance engineering at scale.
• Prior work in secure external‑facing web platforms, including threat modeling, secure configuration, and vulnerability remediation for large tenants.
• Experience collaborating with compliance, governance, and security teams for enterprise-grade releases., with a strong understanding of system-level or mobile application development. 

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This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.