Microsoft

Principal Software Engineer

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6 days ago
Redmond, WA, USAStaff+
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Base Salary

$166k - $296k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Lead architecture, technical strategy, and design for large-scale business data, intelligence, AI, and cloud platform systems.
  • Design and evolve scalable, reliable, secure, governed, and high-performance distributed systems for enterprise applications, copilots, agents, and AI experiences.
  • Develop AI-native capabilities including retrieval and grounding systems, semantic intelligence, process intelligence, agent orchestration, intelligent automation, and LLM-powered experiences.
  • Drive Dataverse platform evolution and establish reusable platform patterns, frameworks, APIs, data models, and intelligence services.
  • Partner with engineering, product, research, data science, security, and business stakeholders to shape roadmaps and cross-organization technical direction.
  • Champion secure development, automation, testing, observability, telemetry, incident management, and operational excellence.
  • Mentor engineers through architecture reviews, design coaching, and technical leadership.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field and 8+ years of technical engineering experience with coding, or equivalent experience.
  • Coding experience in C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Python, or similar modern development languages.
  • Experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems, cloud platforms, data platforms, AI services, or enterprise software.
  • Experience building foundational platform capabilities serving multiple products, customers, or engineering organizations at scale.
  • Deep expertise in software architecture, distributed systems, data architecture, reliability, scalability, performance optimization, and operational excellence.
  • Experience with Azure, cloud-native architectures, containerized workloads, platform services, or hyperscale cloud infrastructure.
  • Experience with business data platforms, knowledge systems, semantic models, metadata platforms, retrieval systems, search technologies, or intelligence platforms.
  • Experience developing AI-powered applications, LLM-enabled experiences, retrieval and grounding systems, agent frameworks, intelligent automation, or production AI services.
  • Experience with infrastructure as code, automated testing, observability, telemetry, incident management, and DevOps practices.
  • Understanding of security, privacy, governance, compliance, reliability, accessibility, and Responsible AI principles.
  • Ability to influence technical direction, align stakeholders, communicate complex concepts clearly, and mentor senior engineers across organizations.
  • Ability to meet Microsoft Cloud Background Check and applicable customer or government security screening requirements.
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Every company has a mission. What's ours? To empower every person and every organization to achieve more. We believe technology can and should be a force for good and that meaningful innovation contributes to a brighter world in the future and today. Our culture doesn’t just encourage curiosity; it embraces it. Each day we make progress together by showing up as our authentic selves. We show up with a learn-it-all mentality. We show up cheering on others, knowing their success doesn't diminish our own. We show up every day open to learning our own biases, changing our behavior, and inviting in differences. Because impact matters. Microsoft operates in 190 countries and is made up of approximately 228,000 passionate employees worldwide.

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