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Principal Software Engineering Manager, CoreAI

Microsoft· Software Engineering
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Redmond, WA, Mountain View, CA, New York, NY$142.8k - $274.8kfull-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Principal Software Engineering Manager leading a team of engineers to build customer-facing AI services within CoreAI, focusing on Responsible AI, Azure OpenAI, and AI infrastructure, with emphasis on scalable, low-latency, highly available systems and DevOps practices.

Responsibilities

  • Lead a team of software engineers, hiring, growing, and upskilling their talent
  • Review the design and code artifacts that make up large-scale distributed cloud services and solutions with a focus on high availability, scalability, robustness, and observability.
  • Lead project development across the organization and work with subject matter experts and stakeholders to drive development and release plans.
  • Ensure systems owned by the team meet business requirements and service KPIs.
  • Take end-to-end responsibility for the development lifecycle and production readiness of the services the team builds and drive the team’s DevOps culture.
  • Ensure the team follows best practices of modern software engineering through code and design reviews and take effective service decisions based on data and telemetry.
  • Understand Microsoft businesses and collaborate with stakeholders towards cohesive, end-to-end experiences for Microsoft customers.
  • Embrace a growth mindset and stay up to date with the current and state-of-the-art technologies to improve customer experience and better serve the product’s business needs.

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, or Python OR equivalent experience.

Skills

Required:Software engineering leadershipSystem design and architectureDevOps and production readinessStakeholder collaboration
Nice to have:Cloud services and distributed systemsMachine learning model infrastructureLeadership and people management

Benefits

  • Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
Last updated Jul 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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