Principal Software Engineer-AI Infrastructure

About the role

The Artificial Intelligence (AI) Infrastructure Engineering Systems team at Microsoft builds the cloud platform, engineering infrastructure, and developer systems that enable teams to develop, deploy, and operate AI services at scale. You will help create foundational capabilities spanning service delivery, data storage, graph infrastructure, analytics, stream processing, data pipelines, search, compute, media, and service lifecycle management.

What you'll do

• Oversee and own the architecture of deeply complex and ambiguous products and solutions, evaluate design options and trade-offs
• Drive innovation and delivery across multiple large-scale initiatives, guiding teams through architecture, design, implementation, validation, deployment
• Design platform-first products, services, tools, and extensible code that can be reused across the organization while meeting performance, scalability, resiliency
• Establish and champion company-wide coding, testing, architecture, and operational standards
• Act as a technical authority for cross-product debugging, verification, telemetry, incident learning, repair actions

What you need

• 8–14 years in software engineering
• Java
• JavaScript
• Python
• C++
• C#
• C
• B.Sc or B.Tech or B.E. or BCA or M.Sc or M.Tech or MCA

Good to have

• Data structures
• Rust
• ETL