Principal Software Engineer | Microsoft Careers

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WA Posted 11 days ago $142,800–$274,800 / year
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TL;DR

As a Principal AI Architect at Commercial Engineering & AI (CEAI), you will lead the end-to-end architecture for next-generation tools and applications in Customer Success and Consulting, partnering with engineering and product teams to deliver secure, scalable AI systems. Your responsibilities include defining technical roadmaps, establishing architectural guardrails, leading design reviews, and embedding Responsible AI principles into agentic solutions. You will also drive platform reliability and cost management, build coalitions across Microsoft’s engineering groups, and mentor engineers while contributing to internal technical communities. The role requires extensive experience in software engineering, full-stack development, and cloud-native systems architecture, with proficiency in C#, Python, JavaScript, and React, as well as expertise in AI/ML solutions like RAG, LLM orchestration, and agentic workflows.

Skills

Python C# JavaScript React AWS Azure Kubernetes Docker CI/CD Terraform PostgreSQL Redis Prometheus Grafana Git GitHub Jenkins Ansible Kafka Flask FastAPI TensorFlow PyTorch Responsible AI Cloud Native MLOps

What you'll do

  • Own the reference architecture and roadmap for AI/Agentic platform capabilities.
  • Lead architecture/design reviews to ensure system boundaries, contracts, and resiliency.
  • Embed Responsible AI principles into agentic solution design and security compliance.
  • Drive architecture improvements for reliability, observability, and cost efficiency.
  • Establish telemetry standards and ensure consistent instrumentation across teams.
  • Build coalitions and resolve misalignments across broader Microsoft engineering/product groups.

What we're looking for

  • 10+ years of software engineering or solution architecture experience with success in building and operating complex systems.
  • Proficient coding skills in C#, Python, JavaScript, and React for full-stack development.
  • Experience designing and shipping AI/ML GenAI solutions including RAG, LLM orchestration, and agentic workflows.
  • Expertise in architecting cloud-native, distributed systems at scale with reliability and performance focus.
  • Strong cross-team influence and communication skills to drive alignment across multiple disciplines and stakeholders.
  • Ability to work hands-on with engineering fundamentals for prototyping, debugging complex issues, and architectural investigations.

Employer

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

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