Microsoft

Principal Software Engineer - AI Powered Observability

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21 hours ago
Redmond, WA, USAStaff+
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$143k - $304k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Partner across product groups on distributed systems design, cloud technology interactions, infrastructure code, and large-scale dependencies.
  • Lead by example, mentor engineers, and produce extensible and maintainable code used across products.
  • Develop and promote engineering insights, best practices, and standards across system, platform, product development, and operations.
  • Drive improvements to product architecture, code, features, operations, and end-to-end usage scenarios.
  • Provide technical leadership in test maturity reviews, static analysis reviews, on-call rotations, and incident response.
  • Resolve major incidents using deep business and technical expertise.
  • Advance AI-powered observability, autonomous outage detection, AI-driven reliability, and customer-impact protection.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field and at least 6 years of technical engineering experience with coding, or equivalent experience.
  • Experience coding in languages including C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
  • Ability to meet Microsoft Cloud Background Check and applicable customer or government security screening requirements.
  • Awareness of modern distributed software design patterns and cloud systems architecture, including microservices, containers, load balancing, queuing, and caching.
  • Experience with C#, Java, C, C++, or Golang.
  • Experience building, shipping, and operating reliable solutions.
  • Experience with AI, ML, risk assessment systems, or intelligent automation solutions.
  • Experience leading technical initiatives and influencing architecture, design, and engineering practices across teams.
  • Ability to drive operational excellence through automation, scalability, reliability, and continuous improvement.
  • Preferred qualifications include a master's degree with at least 8 years of experience or a bachelor's degree with at least 12 years of experience, or equivalent experience.

Benefits

  • Minimum three days per week in the office.
  • Eligible roles may receive benefits and other compensation.
  • Microsoft Cloud Background Check is required upon hire or transfer and every two years thereafter.
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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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