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Job Summary:
Microsoft AI powers AI-driven experiences for over 1 billion users. They are seeking a Principal Software Engineer to lead the technical direction for intelligent, large-scale content platforms, focusing on multi-year technical strategy and architectural coherence across organizations.
Responsibilities:
• Define and drive long-term technical strategy for large-scale distributed systems and platforms spanning multiple teams and organizations.
• Establish architectural principles, patterns, and standards that ensure consistency, scalability, and maintainability across services.
• Lead the design of system-of-systems architectures, integrating services, data, and AI capabilities into cohesive platforms.
• Make high-impact technical decisions that balance innovation, risk, cost, and long-term sustainability.
• Architect and evolve backend services, APIs, data infrastructure, and platform capabilities that operate at global scale.
• Ensure systems meet stringent requirements for availability, latency, throughput, security, privacy, and cost efficiency.
• Drive operational excellence through observability, resiliency design, incident management, and continuous improvement.
• Identify and eliminate systemic inefficiencies across services, infrastructure, and development workflows.
• Define how LLMs and intelligent systems are integrated into core platform architecture (not as isolated features).
• Establish patterns for retrieval, grounding, orchestration, memory, and tool use in production systems.
• Lead the design of evaluation frameworks for quality, safety, latency, reliability, and business impact.
• Ensure responsible AI practices, including safety, privacy, and governance, are embedded into system design.
• Influence technical direction across teams, organizations, and partner groups without direct authority.
• Drive alignment between engineering, product, and applied science on platform strategy and execution.
• Lead complex, multi-team initiatives from concept through delivery, ensuring clarity, momentum, and results.
• Represent technical strategy and progress to senior leadership.
• Raise the engineering bar across the organization through design reviews, technical mentorship, and standards setting.
• Act as a role model for deep technical rigor, high-quality execution, and end-to-end ownership.
• Mentor senior engineers and emerging leaders, helping grow the next generation of technical talent.
• Foster a culture of innovation, accountability, and continuous improvement.
Qualifications:
Required:
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
• OR equivalent experience.
Preferred:
• Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 12+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
• OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 15+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
• OR equivalent experience.
• Proven track record of architecting and delivering large-scale distributed systems or platforms used by millions of users.
• Deep expertise in backend systems, cloud-native architecture, and service-oriented or microservices-based design.
• Experience owning and evolving production systems with high availability, low latency, and solid operational rigor.
• Solid fundamentals in system design, distributed systems, data modeling, and performance optimization.
• Demonstrated ability to drive technical strategy and influence across multiple teams or organizations.
• Experience leading complex, ambiguous, and high-impact technical initiatives end-to-end.
Company:
Microsoft AI is a software development company. Founded in 2024, the company is headquartered in Redmond, USA, with a team of 5001-10000 employees. The company is currently Late Stage.