Principal Software Engineer - ISE
Microsoft · Sydney, Australia · Software Engineering
About this role
Microsoft is hiring a principal-level Software Engineer based in Sydney, Australia. The posting calls out experience with Python, JavaScript, Java, C.
- Role
- Software Engineer
- Function
- software engineering
- Level
- principal
- Track
- Tech leadership
- Employment
- Full-time
- Location
- Sydney, Australia
- Department
- Software Engineering
- Posted
- May 19, 2026
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Job description
from Microsoft careersDo you enjoy solving problems, writing software, and working with customers? Do you wake up hoping to find time to learn a bit more about how to containerize compute workloads? Work with high scale data? Or build end-to-end engineering deployment systems? How can you use emerging AI technologies to accelerate developers and solve new challenges? Do you want to join a team where learning about new technology is part of our work every day?
The Industry Solutions Engineering (ISE) team is a global engineering organization that has operated Microsoft’s Forward Deployed Engineering function for over a decade, working directly with customers to co-engineer solutions to their toughest business challenges. We don’t build things and hand them over. We embed with customers, engineer side-by-side, and create real business value together.
We operate in small, multidisciplinary teams, enabling tight feedback loops and rapid iteration. Together, we build AI-powered, cloud-based solutions that deliver measurable business outcomes. Our work is powered by Hypervelocity Engineering (HVE), a methodology of applying AI across the full lifecycle to build and ship secure, production-ready solutions from day one, accelerating time to value without sacrificing quality, control, or trust.
We collaborate with Microsoft product teams, partners, and open-source communities to create reusable, high-impact solution patterns that contribute to the broader Microsoft platform.