Microsoft

Principal Data Engineer

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Remote, United StatesStaff+
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Base Salary

$143k - $304k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Lead end-to-end development of cloud-native applications, APIs, platform services, and full-stack engineering disciplines.
  • Architect and deliver generative AI platforms, copilots, agentic systems, and intelligent applications.
  • Design AI-ready data platforms, knowledge systems, scalable AI services, APIs, and orchestration frameworks.
  • Drive technical strategy and architecture for Applied AI solutions across engineering, data science, product, and business teams.
  • Create reusable AI frameworks, SDKs, and platform services that improve productivity, performance, scalability, governance, and reliability.
  • Establish practices for Responsible AI, AI governance, model evaluation, security, compliance, observability, and operational excellence.
  • Provide hands-on technical leadership through architecture reviews, code reviews, mentoring, and direct technical contribution.
  • Partner with business and technology leaders to identify and deliver transformational AI opportunities.
  • Turn emerging AI technologies into scalable platforms, reusable services, and enterprise-wide solutions.

Requirements

  • A master’s degree in a relevant field plus 4+ years of applicable experience, or a bachelor’s degree in a relevant field plus 6+ years of applicable experience, or equivalent experience.
  • 5+ years of experience working in data-intensive Azure environments and translating business requirements into scalable data and AI solutions.
  • Deep expertise with Microsoft Fabric, Azure AI Foundry, Azure Data Platform, Synapse Analytics, and Azure App Service.
  • Hands-on experience with Python or modern programming languages such as C#, Java, or Scala.
  • Experience designing and implementing generative AI, LLM, RAG, semantic search, vector database, and agentic AI solutions.
  • Preferred experience building and deploying copilots, intelligent agents, multi-agent systems, and enterprise AI applications.
  • Preferred expertise in AI platform engineering, LLM orchestration, knowledge graphs, prompt engineering, model tuning, and AI evaluation frameworks.
  • Preferred experience operating cloud-scale services using software engineering and SRE practices, including reliability, observability, automation, and service excellence.
  • Preferred experience with MLOps, LLMOps, AI observability, model governance, and production AI operations.
  • Preferred success leading enterprise-scale cloud, data, analytics, and AI transformation initiatives.
  • Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers and drive architecture decisions, engineering strategy, and cross-functional execution.
  • Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and government security screening requirements, including the Microsoft Cloud Background Check.

Benefits

  • The typical U.S. base pay range is $142,800–$274,800 per year; the San Francisco Bay Area and New York City metropolitan area range is $188,000–$304,200 per year.
  • Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
  • The position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until filled.

Tech Stack

Categories

AI ApplicationsBackendData Engineering
Microsoft

About Microsoft

10,000+ employees

Microsoft develops operating systems, productivity software, cloud services, developer tools, and consumer devices for individuals, enterprises, and governments. Its main products include Windows, Microsoft 365, Azure, Visual Studio/GitHub, Xbox, and LinkedIn; revenue comes from software subscriptions and licenses, cloud consumption, hardware sales, and advertising. Founded in 1975 and headquartered in Redmond, Washington, Microsoft is a public company traded on Nasdaq.

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