Microsoft · 12 hours ago
Principal Software Automation Engineer
United States, North Carolina, Raleigh
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$140K/yr - $275K/yr
6+ years expMicrosoft is seeking a Principal Software Automation Engineer to define, scale, and govern automation standards across HPC infrastructure and Azure-connected platforms. This role combines hands-on delivery with strategic leadership to enhance operational efficiency and reliability across cloud-integrated environments.
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Responsibilities
Own the end-to-end automation strategy for HPC, operational platforms, and Azure integrations. Define reference architectures, standards, and coding methodologies. Serve as the highest-level technical escalation point for automation, reliability, and integration challenges across the org
Create and maintain multi-year automation roadmaps aligned to business priorities. Establish coding standards, testing strategies, code quality, security baselines, and operational readiness criteria adopted across teams
Build, mentor, and technically lead a software automation team over time. Set hiring bar, role definitions, and career paths; coach senior engineers; lead by example through hands-on contributions
Architect, design, implement, and operate production-grade automation platforms for HPC infrastructure and cloud services
Eliminate manual and error-prone work by codifying provisioning, imaging, patching, validation, break/fix, incident response, and self-healing remediation workflows
Design robust API-first, event-driven, and asynchronous integrations across internal platforms for HPC services, and Azure-native services
Build and evolve data pipelines that ingest, transform, and validate telemetry, logs, metrics, and operational signals. Enable reliability analysis, capacity forecasting, cost optimization, and executive reporting
Lead infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD pipelines, identity and access automation (RBAC), policy enforcement, secrets management, and monitoring with security-by-default and compliance-aware practices
Define SLOs/SLIs for critical services; standardize logging, metrics, and tracing; implement automated detection, alerting, and recovery to improve availability and reduce MTTR
Partner with infrastructure, Cloud, CAD, security teams to align priorities, unblock dependencies, and drive adoption of CoE standards and platforms
Lead architecture and design reviews, assess trade-offs, and make durable technical decisions that balance reliability, velocity, cost, and risk
Qualification
Required
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
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
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
10+ years building production software, automation platforms, or infrastructure tooling
7+ years of experience in a technical lead role
Problem-solving skills and a collaborative attitude
Exceptional oral and written communication skills with a proven ability to present complex technical information to leadership
Team player, collaboration skills, and positive attitude
Coding skills (e.g., Python, Go, C#, Java) with testing and CI/CD rigor
Company
Microsoft
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