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Principal Software Engineer--M365 Deployment Team

Microsoft· Software Engineering
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China, Jiangsu, Suzhou, China, Shanghai, Shanghaifull-timePosted 4d ago

About the role

Principal Software Engineer to define and drive the next generation AI-native deployment platform for Microsoft’s large-scale cloud services, enabling humans and AI agents to interact with deployment systems at cloud scale while modernizing architecture and ensuring reliability, security, and observability.

Responsibilities

  • Define the technical vision, architecture, and long-term strategy for key areas of our next-generation deployment platform.
  • Lead the transformation from a primarily human-centric deployment system toward an AI-native platform where humans and AI agents are first-class participants.
  • Define the platform capabilities, APIs, abstractions, telemetry, control mechanisms, and safety boundaries that enable agents to reason, act, collaborate, and autonomously execute deployment workflows at scale.
  • Drive the application of AI and agent technologies across deployment, validation, troubleshooting, mitigation, recovery, and other engineering workflows.
  • Lead architecture and design for complex distributed systems operating across large-scale Microsoft cloud infrastructure.
  • Drive modernization toward more modular, independently evolvable, scalable, observable, and resilient deployment architecture.
  • Tackle the team's hardest and most ambiguous technical challenges, identify systemic architectural issues, and create durable solutions that extend beyond individual features.
  • Establish engineering principles and standards for reliability, security, observability, scalability, quality, and operational excellence.
  • Drive technical alignment across organizational boundaries and resolve complex architecture, dependency, and ownership challenges.

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:Technical leadershipSystem architectureAI/LLM and agent technologies
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