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Senior/Principal Software Engineer - CoreAI

Microsoft· Software Engineering
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Full-timePosted 2w ago

About the role

Principal Software Engineer responsible for shaping end-to-end customer and developer experience for FoundryIQ within CoreAI, setting technical direction across product and service boundaries, and advancing engineering excellence with a focus on scalable, secure, and reliable AI capabilities at global scale.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the principled adoption and continuous improvement of AI tools and Responsible AI practices across the software development lifecycle.
  • Establish accountability for AI-generated assets, define scalable processes and tools, use engineering health metrics to measure progress, and share learnings across the organization.
  • Set technical direction for production services and improve engineering quality through automation, analysis, debugging, telemetry, and retrospectives.
  • Strengthen diagnosability, incident prevention, secure and privacy-preserving operations, least-privilege practices, and code quality.
  • Raise the technical and engineering bar across the organization by defining and modeling principled practices, mentoring technical leaders, and creating reusable mechanisms that help teams improve quality, velocity, and operational discipline at scale.
  • Build an inclusive and safe engineering culture where people have the clarity, autonomy, and accountability to do their best work.
  • Create clarity as goals, customer needs, technologies, and constraints evolve. Reframe ambiguous problems, communicate changes in direction, and help teams learn, adapt, and maintain momentum through shifting priorities.
  • Lead cross-group planning and execution by translating long-term vision and ambiguous problems into clear decisions, milestones, and measurable outcomes.
  • Drive estimation and capacity planning, negotiate scope and technical tradeoffs, resolve blockers, and adjust execution as goals and constraints change.
  • Balance delivery speed with security, privacy, compliance, reliability, and operational readiness. Establish disciplined practices for validation, flighting, rollback, incident response, and disaster recovery, and use operational evidence to reduce risk.
  • Partner with internal and external developers, customers, and stakeholders to validate requirements, technical feasibility, and product outcomes. Translate qualitative feedback, usage data, and success metrics into prioritized improvements, including accessibility, globalization, security, and privacy requirements.
  • Influence technical strategy and product direction across teams without relying on formal authority. Build shared understanding among developers, technical leaders, product partners, and stakeholders, surface disagreements early, and secure commitment to cohesive, enterprise-ready experiences.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field AND 4+ years of technical engineering experience building and operating cloud services OR equivalent experience.

Skills

Required:Technical leadership
Nice to have:End-to-end customer and developer experienceDistributed systemsSecure services designAI-assisted engineering toolsCustomer empathy and feedback iterationAI product capabilities / search / data services
Last updated Oct 9, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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