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Microsoft Corporation is a global technology leader producing software, hardware, and cloud services including Windows, Office 365, Azure cloud platform, Xbox gaming, and Surface devices. Industry: Software & Cloud Computing
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The Principal Software Architect joins the Microsoft Security Purview team to build a data security platform for the era of AI. This role involves designing how data sensitivity is represented and propagated through agent runtimes while ensuring protection decisions reach enforcement points in performance-critical call paths. You will own end-to-end architecture, author technical designs, write production code, and lead technical alignment across multiple organizations to solve complex distributed systems challenges. The work focuses on protecting sensitive data as autonomous agents interact with documents and tools. Required skills include extensive experience in C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python. Preferred qualifications include expertise in building scalable cloud services, designing latency-sensitive policy evaluation systems, and developing applications with LLMs using frameworks like LangChain, LlamaIndex, AutoGen, DSPy, Transformers, or Haystack to address AI-native engineering requirements.