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Principal Software Engineer-AI Infrastructure

Microsoft· Software Engineering
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Bangalorefull-timePosted 3w ago

About the role

Role focused on technical leadership for AI Infrastructure Engineering Systems at Microsoft, owning architecture and driving scalable, secure, and maintainable platform solutions across product boundaries within AI services at scale.

Responsibilities

  • Oversee and own the architecture of deeply complex and ambiguous products and solutions, evaluate design options and trade-offs, and align technical decisions with customer, business, and long-term platform outcomes.
  • Drive innovation and delivery across multiple large-scale initiatives, guiding teams through architecture, design, implementation, validation, deployment, and operationalization.
  • Design platform-first products, services, tools, and extensible code that can be reused across the organization while meeting performance, scalability, resiliency, disaster recovery, security, compliance, and cost requirements.
  • Establish and champion company-wide coding, testing, architecture, and operational standards; provide technical leadership in reviews and mentor engineers and technical leaders.
  • Act as a technical authority for cross-product debugging, verification, telemetry, incident learning, repair actions, and automation that targets zero-touch deployment and prevents recurrence.
  • Build alignment across teams, customers, and technical leadership; negotiate dependencies and trade-offs, hold stakeholders accountable for commitments, and execute a long-term vision for core infrastructure.
  • Influence open-source projects and industry practices, evaluate emerging technologies, and advance layered security, privacy, safety, and strategic compliance across complex products.

Qualifications

  • 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.

Skills

Required:Architecture and technical leadership for distributed systems
Nice to have:Alignment of technical decisions with business outcomesLanguages (Java, C++, Rust, etc.)Open-source influence/participationLarge-scale platform systems
Last updated Oct 9, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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