Principal Software Engineer
Technology, Data & Digital · Software & Web Development · Software Engineering
In short
Microsoft is looking for a Principal Software Engineer to define and build secure AI agent management experiences for Agent 365. This hybrid role involves full-stack development, focusing on scalable services and intuitive user interfaces to manage agent security, policies, and tools. The position offers opportunities for technical leadership, architectural direction, and mentoring within a rapidly evolving AI ecosystem.
Responsibilities
- Lead the architecture and design of scalable AI infrastructure, setting technical direction for complex, large-scale systems.
- Define and drive end-to-end architecture for Agent Security, Policy, and Tool Governance, solving complex and ambiguous engineering problems across organizational boundaries.
- Establish technical strategy and engineering frameworks for experimentation and evaluation.
- Define success criteria and lead analysis of experimentation scorecards, translating results into engineering priorities and product improvements.
- Partner closely with Product Managers and engineering leaders to define scenarios, datasets, evaluation methodologies, and measurable success criteria.
- Lead data acquisition and evaluation-data strategy, establishing standards for data quality, formatting, accuracy, governance, and reuse.
- Provide technical leadership across teams, driving architectural alignment, influencing engineering investments, and raising engineering quality.
- Identify systemic technical risks and opportunities and drive solutions that improve scalability, reliability, security, and long-term maintainability.
Requirements
- 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.
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements.
- Required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
Desired Qualifications
- Master'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 Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 12+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python, OR equivalent experience.
- Hands-on experience building and delivering LLM-powered applications or agents that use tools and execute multi-step workflows, beyond personal use of AI coding assistants.
- Solid software engineering fundamentals, including hands-on coding, debugging, and automated testing, with sound judgment about abstractions, interfaces, and maintainability.
- Experience designing and operating distributed systems or cloud services, including state management, observability, security, reliability.
- Demonstrated principal-level technical leadership across teams, including shaping architecture, aligning delivery, influencing decisions without direct authority, and mentoring engineers through hands-on work.
- Experience building Security for AI solutions.
Benefits
- Typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $142,800 - $274,800 per year.
- Different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, with a base pay range of USD $188,000 - $304,200 per year.
- Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
Skills
C++C#JavaJavaScriptPythonC
#AI#Agent 365#Software Engineering#Security#Policy#Governance#Distributed Systems#Cloud
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Company
MicrosoftJob Posted
2 weeks ago
Employment Type
Full Time
Work mode
Hybrid
Salary
US$142,800–274,800 / year
Experience Level
Executive
Locations
United States
Qualification
Bachelor
Applicants
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