Microsoft

Principal Software Engineer - AI Experiences, Monetization

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Redmond, WA, USA or Mountain View, CA, USAStaff+
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Base Salary

$143k - $304k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and operate scalable backend services and APIs for campaign management, reporting, and optimization workflows.
  • Own features end to end across data models, storage, service logic, API contracts, and client applications.
  • Design distributed systems for high throughput, low latency, fault tolerance, and cost efficiency on cloud infrastructure.
  • Build transactional data stores, caching, asynchronous processing, messaging, and integrations with advertising platform systems.
  • Improve reliability, performance, security, observability, and maintainability across services and applications.
  • Lead technical design, architecture reviews, investigations, and technical direction across teams.
  • Own production health through monitoring, alerting, capacity planning, incident response, and post-incident improvements.
  • Partner with product, design, and engineering teams to deliver end-to-end advertiser solutions.
  • Advance AI-enabled engineering practices and integrate AI capabilities into platform services and advertiser workflows.
  • Mentor engineers through code reviews, design guidance, and knowledge sharing.
  • Modernize legacy systems, reduce complexity, and improve customer outcomes.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related technical field and at least 6 years of technical engineering experience with coding in C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python, or equivalent experience.
  • Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and government security screening requirements.
  • Successful completion of the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire or transfer and every two years thereafter.
  • Preferred: master’s degree in computer science or a related technical field and at least 8 years of technical engineering experience, or a bachelor’s degree and at least 12 years of technical engineering experience, or equivalent experience.

Benefits

  • The typical U.S. base pay range is $142,800-$274,800 per year, with a separate $188,000-$304,200 annual range for specified San Francisco Bay Area and New York City metropolitan locations.
  • Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
  • Employees within a 50-mile commute of a designated Microsoft U.S. hub are generally expected to work from the office at least four days per week, subject to local law and jurisdiction.
  • The position is open for a minimum of five days and accepts applications on an ongoing basis until filled.
  • Microsoft provides equal employment opportunity and application accommodations.
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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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