Microsoft

Principal Software Engineer, CoreAI

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Redmond, WA, USAStaff+
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Base Salary

$143k - $304k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design and build scalable, reliable, and secure cloud services while setting technical direction for resilient and maintainable architecture.
  • Translate customer and business needs into technical architectures and delivered solutions.
  • Collaborate with engineering, product, and partner teams to clarify requirements, align interfaces and dependencies, and resolve trade-offs.
  • Own the service lifecycle from design and implementation through testing, deployment, operations, and continuous service-health improvements.
  • Provide hands-on technical leadership through production coding, design and code reviews, mentoring, and cross-team delivery.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent experience.
  • At least 8 years of software-development experience, with the required qualifications also citing 6+ years of technical engineering experience.
  • Coding experience in one or more of C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
  • Experience designing, building, and operating cloud services, distributed backend services, or production data-processing systems.
  • Strong coding and system-design skills, including API and data-model design, automated testing, debugging, and maintainable production code.
  • Experience improving service reliability through testing, telemetry, incident diagnosis, and lasting engineering fixes.
  • Hands-on technical ownership from design through production, including cross-team leadership, communication of trade-offs, and collaborative delivery.
  • Preferred experience includes billing, usage metering, reconciliation, AI model usage, token-based measurement, event-driven architectures, cloud-scale telemetry or analytics platforms, resilient processing, replay and recovery, schema evolution, regional validation, and mentoring engineers.

Benefits

  • Flexible remote and in-office work options may be discussed based on the role, work location, and applicable Microsoft policies.
  • Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.

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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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