Principal Software Engineer
Microsoft
Software Engineering
Posted on Oct 15, 2025
Principal Software Engineer
Multiple Locations, Norway
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Date posted
Oct 15, 2025
Job number
1893971
Work site
0 days / week in-office - remote
Travel
0-25 %
Role type
People Manager
Profession
Software Engineering
Discipline
Software Engineering
Employment type
Full-Time
Overview
Principal Software Engineer - Office365
How would you like to directly affect the lives of billions of humans? Microsoft Developer Center Norway is growing. We are looking for developers with a strong passion for building reliable services to be used on a global scale. Come join our team!
Who we are
Microsoft Developer Center Norway (MDCN), with offices in Oslo, Trondheim and Tromsø, is part of the Experiences & Devices group within Microsoft. We work on integrating and building intelligent experiences in Microsoft Copilot and across Office 365 via cloud services such as Outlook, OneDrive, SharePoint, Skype and Microsoft Teams. Our implementation ranks among the world’s largest and most cutting-edge distributed systems spanning hundreds of data centers around the world. Our products are used by most Fortune 500 enterprises, key government organizations, thousands of non-profits and 100s of millions of consumers across the world.
To deliver on our mission to empower people and organizations to achieve more, we need to create scalable and reliable services and are seeking a skilled back-end developer. We can offer an agile development environment in Oslo with diverse skills in algorithms and data structures, big data, data science, machine learning and search technology to mention a few. The position is full-time and based in our Oslo office.
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.
Qualifications
- You will work as a Microsoft Software Engineer in Oslo with some of the largest and most scalable services in the world with non-negotiable focus on performance, availability, reliability and consistency.
- You will work in a collaborative environment, with local and remote partners, to turn requirements into simple, elegant, and optimal solutions at large scale.
- You will partner with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for one or more complex scenarios.
- You will provide technical leadership for the identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.
- Leads by example and mentors others to produce extensible and maintainable code used across the company.
- You will be responsible for design, implementation, testing, rollout and running software services.
- You will be developing clean and effective code by allowing refactoring when needed and ensuring your code base incl. tests are ready for change.
- You will ship your code to thousands of machines serving millions of users around the world.
Responsibilities
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
- OR equivalent experience.
- Solid technical problem-solving skills.
- Experience with leading distributed teams and projects.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with large-scale high performance software systems and understanding of software architecture and design.
- Inclusive, collaborative and with a growth-mindset approach.
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.
Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.
Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.
Industry leading healthcare
Educational resources
Discounts on products and services
Savings and investments
Maternity and paternity leave
Generous time away
Giving programs
Opportunities to network and connect
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 and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.