Software Engineering IC6

Microsoft • Redmond, WA

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About The Position

Based in Redmond, this principal individual contributor role will help define and deliver an end-to-end strategy across Retrieval, Context Engineering, WorkIQ/FabricIQ, and potentially Knowledge Graphs to drive a winning E2E approach for Microsoft. In addition to helping define the overall technical strategy and roadmap with partner PMs and engineering leaders, you will be hands-on building and integrating services step-by-step, writing production code across the product.
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Requirements

• 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, Python or equivalent experience.

Nice To Haves

• Proven experience as a senior IC software engineer building and operating cloud services (Azure preferred).
• Expertise building retrieval systems, context engineering, and/or knowledge graph systems.
• Experience with distributed systems, service reliability, observability, performance, and live-site operations.
• Experience leading technical direction across multiple partner teams and delivering cross-team integrations.
• Ability to translate ambiguous problem spaces into concrete technical roadmaps and executable plans.
• Familiarity with LLM application patterns (RAG, agents/tools), data pipelines, and evaluation/quality loops.
• Demonstrated success driving adoption of AI-assisted coding practices and developer productivity workflows.
• Experience with multi-tenant platform design, security/compliance considerations, and large-scale integration testing.

Responsibilities

• Drive end-to-end technical strategy and roadmap across Retrieval, Context Engineering, WorkIQ/FabricIQ, and Knowledge Graph.
• Design and implement scalable cloud services and platform components; write production code to deliver features and integrations.
• Partner closely with PMs and engineering leads to define an ambitious but achievable execution plan.
• Collaborate with multiple engineering ICs to build, integrate, and ship E2E scenarios across teams.
• Establish engineering best practices for reliability, security, performance, and operational excellence in Azure.
• Aggressively introduce and scale AI-assisted coding practices by pairing with developers and helping implement features using these workflows.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Principal