Microsoft

Principal Software Engineer - Agentic Engineering

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Austin, TX, USA +2 moreStaff+
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Base Salary

$166k - $331k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Set the technical vision and multi-year strategy for agentic engineering across WSSI.
  • Architect and build agentic systems from experimentation through production deployment, adoption, and continuous improvement.
  • Develop closed-loop workflows that use telemetry, engineering data, tools, and reasoning for issue detection, diagnostics, debugging, remediation, and outcome verification.
  • Establish scalable architectures for orchestration, context engineering, tool integration, evaluation, observability, reliability, and safe operation.
  • Define production AI quality standards, evaluation methods, safeguards, failure-mode analysis, and operational practices.
  • Measure engineering productivity, product quality, workflow reliability, developer experience, and sustained adoption using feedback loops and evidence.
  • Drive technical alignment and reusable engineering standards across organizational boundaries.
  • Establish standards for responsible AI, security, privacy, compliance, and human oversight.
  • Mentor engineers and technical leaders and develop communities of practice around agentic engineering.
  • Track industry and research advances and translate relevant developments into technical recommendations and experiments.
  • Identify opportunities to extend WSSI technologies and workflows to broader engineering scenarios and partner organizations.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field and 8+ years of technical experience in software engineering, network engineering, service engineering, or systems engineering, or equivalent experience.
  • Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements, including the Microsoft Cloud background check.
  • Experience with modern AI-assisted engineering tools in software development workflows such as design, coding, testing, validation, diagnostics, debugging, or operations.
  • Experience leading cross-functional teams or AI squads across team or organizational boundaries.
  • Experience moving agentic projects from prototypes into production or sustained multi-team adoption with measurable impact.
  • Experience architecting production agentic systems involving orchestration, tool use, prompt and context engineering, retrieval, evaluation, observability, reliability, cost, latency, and integration.
  • Experience delivering telemetry-driven issue detection, validation, automated diagnostics or debugging, code remediation, and closed-loop verification at scale.
  • Experience in operating system development, driver development, performance and power analysis, responsible AI, or security is preferred.

Benefits

  • U.S. base pay is listed for the role, with location-specific ranges for the San Francisco Bay Area and New York City metropolitan area.
  • Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
  • The Microsoft Cloud background check is required upon hire or transfer and every two years thereafter.
  • Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled, with the position open for a minimum of 5 days.

Tech Stack

Windows

Categories

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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