Principal Software Engineer - Backend/Fullstack

Role Overview

Responsibilities

• Define technical vision, architecture, and multi-year roadmaps for intelligence platform investments.
• Design distributed systems and AI-native solutions using LLMs, retrieval, agents, memory systems, knowledge graphs, and intelligence pipelines.
• Drive signal processing, contextual intelligence, recommendations, and enterprise-scale insight generation.
• Lead modernization, reliability, performance, scalability, cost-efficiency, observability, testing, and deployment automation initiatives.
• Mentor senior engineers and technical leads, resolve ambiguous challenges, and influence standards and direction across organizations.
• Represent the team across Microsoft and influence platform direction, partner integrations, and future intelligence capabilities.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field and 6+ years of technical engineering experience with coding, or equivalent experience.
• Coding experience in languages including C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
• Ability to meet Microsoft Cloud Background Check and applicable customer or government security screening requirements.

Preferred Qualifications

• 12+ years building cloud-scale distributed systems.
• Experience with large-scale platform services, APIs, data-intensive systems, AI or machine learning platforms, LLM orchestration, retrieval, agent frameworks, or intelligent systems.
• Understanding of distributed systems, reliability, observability, security, privacy, and cloud architecture.
• Ability to influence across organizational boundaries, communicate complex concepts, mentor engineers, navigate ambiguity, and drive operational excellence.