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Principal Software Engineer - AI Infrastructure

Microsoft· Software Engineering
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Redmond, WA, Mountain View, CA$142.8k - $274.8kFull-timePosted 2w ago

About the role

Principal Software Engineer to advance reliability and observability architecture for a large-scale, globally distributed AI platform. Lead technical direction across runtime, routing, capacity, infrastructure, and specialized hardware; mentor engineers and shape engineering practices.

Responsibilities

  • Define and drive the architecture and technical roadmap for platform reliability, observability, and operational health.
  • Design unified health and telemetry capabilities that connect customer impact with application, capacity, dependency, infrastructure, and deployment signals.
  • Develop platform safeguards for overload protection, capacity management, routing integrity, configuration consistency, and automated isolation and recovery.
  • Establish engineering practices for production validation, progressive delivery, regression detection, fault testing, and automated rollback.
  • Advance end-to-end request tracing and diagnostics across distributed services, including routing, retries, failover, and asynchronous operations.
  • Lead cross-team architecture efforts, mentor engineers, and turn production learnings into reusable platform capabilities and measurable reliability improvements.

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:Distributed systemsObservability and telemetryProgramming languages
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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