Principal Software Engineer - Personalisation
MSUnited Kingdom
Posted February 25, 2026
Full Time
About the Company
Microsoft is a global technology leader with a mission to empower individuals and organizations through innovative software and services. The company offers a wide range of products including business software, cloud computing, AI, and mixed reality solutions. Microsoft's culture fosters curiosity, collaboration, and continuous learning, driving meaningful innovation and societal impact.
Job Description
We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer to shape our technical direction and deliver against our strategic goals. As a senior technical leader, you'll drive engineering excellence, influence architecture, and align technology decisions with business priorities. You'll join our Personalisation product group and work with cross-functional teams to deliver innovative customer experiences.
Requirements
- Define and drive technical strategy, architecture, and engineering standards across the Personalisation domain
- Design and deliver scalable systems supporting personalisation, search, recommendations, and ML-powered features
- Partner closely with Product, Data Science, and Design to deliver customer-centric solutions
- Lead and influence technical decision-making across multiple teams and platforms
- Mentor and support senior engineers, helping to raise the overall engineering capability
- Improve engineering quality, reliability, and productivity through best practices, tooling, and platform enhancements
Benefits
- 20% colleague discount across all M&S products
- Competitive holiday entitlement
- Discretionary bonus schemes
- Defined Contribution Pension Scheme
- Life Assurance
- Welcome programme with induction and training
- M&S Choices portal for perks and discounts
- Industry-leading parental, adoption and neonatal policies
- Access to wellbeing support
- Charity volunteer day
