This role pays more than
50%
of similar roles. Most pay
$174,600–$241,562
— the shaded band above.
At the midpoint, this role pays about
$209k
versus about
$208k
for comparable roles.
Based on 240 similar postings.
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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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Listed pay typically runs
$119,800–$234,700
across 586 roles with salary data.
As a Principal Software Engineer within the Foundry Agents team in CoreAI, you will build and evolve large-scale, cloud-native systems that support the entire lifecycle of advanced agentic applications. You will be responsible for developing foundational services for secure agent deployment at enterprise scale, integrating governed tools, and creating infrastructure for model fine-tuning, training loops, and deep observability. Your daily work involves designing distributed runtimes, optimizing complex interactions between models, data, hardware, and infrastructure, and driving technical direction across the software development lifecycle. To succeed in this role, you must possess expertise in programming languages such as C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python. You will solve critical problems regarding how intelligent agent systems are built, operated, and trusted while ensuring high standards of performance, reliability, security, and compliance for production-ready platforms.
What does a Software Engineer earn?
Median $197500 from 2196 postings across 133 companies.
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