Principal Software Engineer, AI Safety and Security
Microsoft
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This role pays more than 91% of similar roles. Most pay $186,500–$237,012 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $307k versus about $212k for comparable roles.
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Intuit is a financial software company known for products like TurboTax, QuickBooks, Mint, and Credit Karma, helping consumers and small businesses manage their finances and taxes. Industry: Financial Software & Technology
Intuit currently has 206 open roles on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs $202,500–$274,000 across 185 roles with salary data.
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Principal Software Engineer, Trust & Safety will lead the technology vision and execution for the Trust & Safety organization to protect customers, partners, and products across various risk vectors. This role involves designing and implementing AI and data-driven capabilities, decisioning systems, and core services to detect and prevent risks like identity compromise and product misuse while minimizing friction. The engineer will build scalable, secure components using Java, Spring Boot, microservices, and event-driven architectures in cloud-native environments involving Kubernetes and Kafka. Key responsibilities include integrating machine learning models for risk scoring, applying LLM-based tools for automated triage, and ensuring high availability through robust observability and performance optimization. The role addresses critical problems in access integrity, regulatory compliance, and content safety by collaborating with data science and security teams to build secure-by-design systems within complex financial and transaction flows.
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