# Principal Software Engineer

**Company**: Microsoft AI
**Location**: Mountain View, United States
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: USD $142,800 – $274,800 per year
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We are seeking a Principal Software Engineer to join the Data Management Platform (DMP) team in Microsoft AI. The DMP team is responsible for building and operating large-scale data pipelines, services, and APIs that enable identity resolution, user segmentation, targeting, and personalization.

Responsibilities:

- Lead architecture discussions and decisions for complex product designs

- Drive experiments using feature flags and interpret results

- Collaborate with partner teams for integration, testing, scalability, performance, and incident management

- Mentor engineers on creating and executing thorough test strategies

- Identify dependencies across teams and coordinate collaboration

- Establish and enforce security best practices

- Drive automation in production and deployment processes

- Apply and share best practices for scalable, secure, and performant product development

- Ensure compliance with security, privacy, and regulatory standards

- Continuously learn and share knowledge about new technologies and trends

- Develop and improve software engineering tools

- Collaborate with partner teams to ensure seamless integration and testing

- Conduct timely code reviews to ensure quality and security

Qualifications:

- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field and 6+ years of technical engineering experience

- Experience with coding languages such as C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python

- Ability to meet Microsoft security screening requirements

## Skills

### Required
- C
- C++
- C#
- Java
- JavaScript
- Python
- software engineering

### Nice to have
- Master's Degree in Computer Science
- 8+ years technical engineering experience

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