Principal Software Engineer

Join the Microsoft AI Web Data Platform Team as a Principal Software Engineer, in a technical leadership capacity, to architect platforms and deliver Internet scale web documents, with full richness to Ground LLMs for 1st party Copilots and 3rd party AI solutions.

In this role, you'll play a key role in building large scale platforms that are fundamental to Bing Search, AI Grounding and Microsoft AI training driving transformative scenarios powering massive scale of users while processing tens of billions of documents per day and managing hundreds of petabytes of data. A suitable candidate will bring a blend of expertise in large-scale data platforms & AI.

Responsibilities:

• Align team efforts with business and user requirements by collaborating with stakeholders to define priorities, resolve dependencies, and ensure delivery of well-documented design and implementation plans for products, applications, services, or platforms.
• Guide system design and architectural decisions across multiple components, encouraging the use of data and telemetry to make informed decisions.
• Drive engineering excellence by fostering a culture of building modular, secure, reliable, testable, maintainable, and reusable solutions, while promoting active monitoring practices.
• Establish quality assurance strategies by setting standards for improving test coverage, streamlining integration testing, and addressing critical problem areas proactively.
• Oversee and improve operational reliability, guiding efforts to troubleshoot and optimize automation, monitoring, and Live Site health.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor'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.
• Preferred qualifications include Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 10+ years technical engineering experience, or equivalent experience.