Principal Software Engineer Architect

Microsoft

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Work type: Hybrid
Location: —
Salary: $142,800–$274,800 / yr
Posted: 10 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live yesterday
Closes: Mar 20, 2027

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This role $209k

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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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As a Principal Software Engineer Architect within the Supply Chain Product Management organization, you will lead the design and adoption of AI-native supply chain architectures. You will collaborate with product managers, engineers, and business stakeholders to evolve the C+AI ecosystem for hyperscale operations and automation. Your daily responsibilities include improving the quality of AI models by optimizing data pipelines, orchestration systems, and operational workflows while building intelligent decision-making platforms and scaling context engineering approaches. The role requires expertise in enterprise-scale cloud and AI architectures, with experience in large-scale data platforms, knowledge graphs, event-driven architectures, reinforcement learning environments, and telemetry systems. You will utilize programming languages such as C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python to solve complex supply chain problems involving the planning, sourcing, manufacturing, and delivery of datacenter assets.

Skills

AI Python C++ C# Java JavaScript C Data Pipelines Knowledge Graphs Event-Driven Architecture Reinforcement Learning Telemetry Systems AI Training Pipelines Enterprise Software Data Platforms

What you'll do

Lead the design and adoption of AI-native supply chain architectures with engineering and business stakeholders.
Evolve the C+AI supply chain ecosystem to support hyperscale operations and automation.
Improve AI model quality by optimizing data pipelines, orchestration systems, and operational workflows.
Define, develop, and monitor performance metrics for AI-driven supply chain architectures.
Build intelligent decision-making platforms that deliver measurable operational and business outcomes.
Develop and scale context engineering approaches to enhance AI-powered supply chain applications.
Provide technical leadership in designing and scaling enterprise software solutions for AI operations.

What we're looking for

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field.
6+ years of technical engineering experience coding in languages such as C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
5+ years of experience developing enterprise-scale cloud and AI-based architectures.
Ability to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check.
Bachelor's or Master's degree in Data Science, Supply Chain Management, Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, or related fields (preferred).
Experience designing large-scale data platforms, knowledge graphs, and event-driven architectures (preferred).
Understanding of reinforcement learning environments and contextual engineering techniques in enterprise AI solutions (preferred).
Ability to develop experimentation frameworks, telemetry systems, and AI training pipelines (preferred).

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