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JOB TITLE: Principal Software Engineer
As a Principal Software Engineer within the Intelligent Conversation and Communications Cloud team, you will design and build an experimentation platform featuring self-service and agent-assisted experiences. You will lead the technical architecture and delivery of scalable, reliable services to simplify experiment setup, execution, and analysis. Your daily work involves developing large-scale AI, agentic, and data-platform capabilities while advancing AI-native software development through coding agents and agentic workflows. You will utilize Microsoft Azure, open-source frameworks, and languages including C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python. The role addresses the technical challenge of transforming real-time conversations, meetings, voice, video, and collaboration signals into intelligent, actionable experiences by providing trusted, end-to-end data solutions and production big data platform capabilities like streaming pipelines and LLM orchestration.
What does a Software Engineer earn in Washington?
Median $208250 from 412 postings across 40 companies.
Design and develop large-scale, self-service AI, agentic, and data-platform capabilities and frameworks.
Advance AI-native software development through coding agents, agentic workflows, and harness engineering.
Design and build an experimentation platform with self-service and agent-assisted experiences.
Drive the technical architecture and delivery of scalable, reliable services for experiment setup and analysis.
Partner with engineering and product teams to define requirements and deliver end-to-end data solutions.
Leverage Microsoft Azure, AI technologies, and open-source frameworks to drive platform innovation.
Shape the platform roadmap to enable teams to make confident, data-driven decisions.
What we're looking for
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field and 6+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in languages like C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python (or equivalent).
Ability to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check.
Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field and 8+ years of technical engineering experience (preferred).
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field and 12+ years of technical engineering experience (preferred).
Production big data platform experience, including streaming pipelines, platform capabilities, state management, checkpointing, connectors, or performance tuning (preferred).
Online experimentation experience including scorecard generation, optimization, live site protection, and standardization (preferred).
Experience with Spark, Kafka, Airflow, distributed storage, analytical systems, or near-real-time data pipelines (preferred).
Experience with Copilot, Agent, LLM orchestration, retrieval, evaluation, or agent-assisted engineering and data workflows (preferred).
Remote (Columbus, OH)+3117 days ago
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