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Posted date: May 21, 2025
There have been 3 jobs posted with the title of Principal Software Engineer - CoreAI all time at Microsoft.There have been 3 Principal Software Engineer - CoreAI jobs posted in the last month.
Category: Software Engineering
Location: Redmond, WA
Estimated salary: $222,050
Range: $139,900 - $304,200
Employment type: Full-Time
Travel amount: 25.0%
Work location type: Up to 50% work from home
Role: Individual Contributor
Description
Microsoft is seeking a Principal Software Engineer for the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Foundry Agents Platform team within the CoreAI group. This team is developing a platform that enables both Microsoft teams and third-party customers to create Artificial Intelligence models and applications. This position involves contributing to advancements in AI as the industry evolves.As a Principal Software Engineer on the Pipelines team within AI Foundry Agents Platform, you will play a crucial role in developing a cloud service that enables AI application developers and data scientists to author and process comprehensive AI Agents for Enterprise applications.
Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more, and we’re dedicated to this mission across every aspect of our company. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. Join us and help shape the future of the world.
Understand User Requirements: Partner with stakeholders to determine user requirements and incorporate feedback into future designs. Design: Lead architecture discussions, create design documents, and ensure system architecture meets security and compliance requirements. Coding: Produce extensible and maintainable code, optimize and debug code, and participate in code reviews to ensure quality standards. Implement: Drive project plans, lead experimentation to determine the effectiveness of changes, and ensure safe deployment of solutions. Reliability and Supportability: Maintain live service operations, develop playbooks for issue resolution, and reduce incident volume. Engineering Excellence: Enhance and identify new developer tools, apply automation in production, and stay current with new trends and technical solutions. Other: Embody our culture and values
Qualifications
Required/Minimum Qualifications:Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C++, C#, Java, or Python OR equivalent experience. Experience with microservices architecture, Kubernetes (K8s), NGINX, observability (logs, metrics, etc.), and network layer protocols.
Other Requirements:
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:
Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
Preferred/Additional Qualifications:
Extensive experience with K8s cluster creation, management, and optimization. Expert level knowledge around security and compliance experience for K8s. Solid understanding of networking in K8s for inter, intra, and external pod-to-pod, control, and data plane communications. Security Configuration and Compliance: Configure, update, and maintain security tools used for endpoint security, log collection and reporting, vulnerability, and compliance scanning. Hardening and compliance with best practices, benchmarks, and remediate vulnerabilities as reported by security.
Software Engineering IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $139,900 - $274,800 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $188,000 - $304,200 per year.
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay
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