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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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The Principal Software Engineering Manager, CoreAI joins the Responsible AI group to lead a team of software engineers in building customer-facing AI services. This role involves managing the full development lifecycle, hiring, and upskilling talent while collaborating with scientists and product managers to deliver high-performance, low-latency, and highly available solutions. You will review design and code artifacts for large-scale distributed cloud services, ensuring they meet business requirements and service KPIs. The work focuses on identifying, measuring, mitigating, and monitoring Responsible AI risks across text, image, audio, video, and multimodal content. Required technical skills include proficiency in languages such as C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python. You will apply these skills to build scalable, sustainable architectures for the industry's best Responsible AI services.
What does a Software Engineering Manager earn?
Median $214394 from 123 postings across 39 companies.
Lead a team of software engineers by hiring, growing, and upskilling their technical talents.
Review design and code artifacts for large-scale distributed cloud services to ensure high availability and scalability.
Drive project development and release plans by collaborating with subject matter experts and stakeholders.
Ensure team-owned systems meet specific business requirements and service KPIs.
Manage the end-to-end development lifecycle and production readiness while driving a DevOps culture.
Enforce modern software engineering best practices through rigorous code and design reviews.
Make effective service decisions based on data, telemetry, and technical trade-offs.
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 experience.
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements, including a Microsoft Cloud background check every two years.
Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field and 8+ years of technical engineering experience in coding, or a Bachelor's Degree with 12+ years of experience (preferred).
5+ years of experience directly managing software engineers building backend services, cloud infrastructure, or platforms (preferred).
5+ years of technical engineering experience designing and delivering highly available, large-scale cloud services and distributed systems (preferred).
4+ years of technical engineering experience with machine learning model infrastructure, hosting, and operations (preferred).
Ability to navigate the company and influence or inspire peers in engineering and broad product development (preferred).
Demonstrated depth of knowledge in software architecture, design tradeoffs, and mature DevOps culture practices (preferred).
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Distributed Systems
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