Microsoft

Principal Software Engineer - CoreAI

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

$143k - $304k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design and build distributed services for Microsoft’s large-scale CI/CD infrastructure.
  • Orchestrate compute across virtual machines, containers, and custom lab environments at millions of resources per day.
  • Collaborate with stakeholders to define requirements, dependencies, design documents, estimates, project plans, and release plans.
  • Create, optimize, debug, refactor, and reuse code to improve performance, maintainability, effectiveness, and ROI.
  • Serve as a Designated Responsible Individual by developing operational playbooks, participating in on-call rotations, monitoring service health, and leading incident restoration.
  • Improve availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, performance, monitoring, and operational excellence.
  • Mentor and guide engineers during incident response and contribute to engineering practices at global scale.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field and 6+ years of technical engineering experience with coding, or equivalent experience.
  • Experience coding in one or more of C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
  • Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements, including the Microsoft Cloud background check.
  • Preferred: 10+ years of technical engineering experience with coding.
  • Preferred: proven experience designing and building distributed services at scale.
  • Preferred: proficiency with Azure services or other cloud services.
  • Preferred: proficiency in C#.

Benefits

  • Flexible work environment with the option to work from home partially or fully depending on location and preference.
  • Eligible roles may receive benefits and other compensation.
  • Requires a Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire or transfer and every two years thereafter.
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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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