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Principal Software Engineer, CoreAI

Microsoft· Software Engineering
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Redmond$142.8k - $274.8kFull-timePosted 7mo ago

About the role

Core AI builds foundational platforms, services, programming models, and developer experiences for next-gen AI applications. The Agentic Core Services Team develops cloud-native, distributed runtime and infrastructure to enable agent-based AI applications at scale with enterprise-grade guarantees, collaborating across disciplines to create scalable, multimodal AI solutions.

Responsibilities

  • Shape the Product Vision: Define and influence the product roadmap by aligning technical strategy with business goals and customer needs.
  • Drive Strategic Clarity: Leverage data-driven insights and competitive intelligence to inform product direction, identify opportunities, and guide decision-making.
  • Architect for Scale and Sustainability: Design and evolve durable, scalable system architectures that balance long-term maintainability with short-term delivery needs, making thoughtful engineering trade-offs.
  • Foster Engineering Alignment: Work with the engineering teams and partner organizations by driving clarity, alignment, and shared ownership of technical direction.
  • Deliver Cohesive End-to-End Experiences: Collaborate closely with partner teams—including experience, SDK, and platform groups—to ensure seamless integration and delivery of features across the stack.
  • Build Foundational Capabilities: Contribute to and lead the development of core platform components and reusable building blocks that accelerate team velocity and product innovation.
  • Champion Customer-Centric Development: Engage directly with customers and product teams to capture feedback, understand demand signals, and refine product messaging—ensuring the voice of the customer shapes product evolution.
  • Lead Live Site Excellence: Drive operational excellence in managing and operating large-scale distributed systems with a high bar for service-level agreements (SLAs). Lead root cause analyses (RCAs) for key live site incidents and outages, identify systemic improvements, and set high standards for reliability and performance.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field and 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Python, or equivalent experience.

Skills

Required:Bachelor's degree + 6+ years engineering experience in target languagesSecurity screening (Microsoft Cloud Background Check)
Last updated Aug 13, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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