Principal Software Engineer
About The Position
Microsoft is leading the AI transformation, empowering organizations with digital intelligence. The Copilot, Agents, and Platform (CAP) organization builds mission-critical services for Microsoft 365 and Dynamics 365, including BizChat, Work IQ, Agent 365, and the agent runtime for the next era of work. The M365 Core AI Inferencing Engineering team within CAP focuses on building and operating hyperscale, high-performance, cost-efficient, and compliant AI infrastructure for Microsoft's Large Language Model (LLM) services across various products. This role offers an opportunity to work on cutting-edge AI technologies at a significant scale and impact, partnering across Microsoft to build the AI inferencing platform that enables rapid development of AI-powered innovations.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role.
- Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
Nice To Haves
- Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
- OR 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
- OR equivalent experience.
- Solid coding skills in Python and/or C#, .Net.
- Solid technical expertise, met by proficiency in implementing 2 or more of the following or equivalent areas:
- 4+ years building and running high scale services.
- Experience with LLMs, orchestrators, embedding models, and vector databases.
- Implementation of Distributed Systems.
- Implementation of Message based architecture.
- High scale OLTP or OLAP storage implementations.
- Experience leading and delivering projects that span multiple engineering organizations.
Responsibilities
- Lead the design, implementation, and delivery of LLM API management service for millions of customers
- Maniacally manage cost and availability – set the benchmark for the industry
- Coach your team for building and running large scale platforms and experiences that get used by hundreds of millions of users every day
- Work independently and collaboratively with other product teams across Power Platform, BizApps, and Microsoft
Benefits
- Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Principal
