This role pays more than
85%
of similar roles. Most pay
$174,200–$220,650
— the shaded band above.
At the midpoint, this role pays about
$231k
versus about
$197k
for comparable roles.
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About Microsoft
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
Microsoft currently has
622 open roles
on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs
$119,800–$234,700
across 559 roles with salary data.
As a Principal Growth Engineer in CoreAI at Microsoft, you will lead the technical strategy for measuring, experimenting with, and scaling AI experiences across world-class products like GitHub Copilot and Visual Studio Code. Your day-to-day involves architecting and building standardized metrics, guardrails, analysis workflows, and rollout automation to improve reliability and decision quality across teams. You’ll also partner with Product, Data Science, Design, and Research to turn ambiguous goals into shippable systems while remaining hands-on in writing production code and reviewing designs. The ideal candidate has a strong background in software engineering fundamentals, experience building high-availability features for globally distributed systems, and expertise in experimentation quality, including bias detection and metric integrity. Proficiency with AI tools to accelerate engineering velocity is also crucial.
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Kubernetes
AWS
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PostgreSQL
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Observability
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AI
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