Principal Software Engineer

About the role

The CoreAI organization at Microsoft builds the end-to-end AI stack and is core to Azure AI innovation and differentiation, as well as all of Microsoft’s flagship products, from GitHub, to Office, Teams, and Xbox. The CoreAI team builds Responsible AI, Azure OpenAI, Model as a Service, Azure ML, Cognitive Services, and the global Azure AI infrastructure for running the largest AI workloads on the planet.

What you'll do

• Design: Own architecture and design decisions for complex systems, evaluating options and tradeoffs to meet security, privacy, scalability, resiliency/DR, cost
• Implement: Plan and execute delivery with experimentation, clear success and guardrail metrics, secure rollout/rollback strategies
• Reliability and Supportability: Build and improve observability and on-call readiness (logging, telemetry, dashboards, playbooks), lead incident response/postmortems

What you need

• 12–22 years in software engineering
• Data structures
• Python
• Java
• C#
• Git
• LLMs
• B.Tech or B.E. or B.Sc or BCA

Good to have

• Machine learning
• Incident response
• Azure