Principal Software Engineer - Microsoft

Key Responsibilities

• Architect and build a high‑throughput web document platform that ingests, stores, and serves tens of billions of pages per day.
• Define data models and pipelines that enable grounding large language models for both first‑party Copilots and third‑party AI solutions.
• Drive performance, reliability, and scalability across petabyte‑scale storage and compute clusters on Azure.
• Mentor senior engineers, set technical direction, and establish best practices for code quality, testing, and deployment.
• Collaborate with research, product, and security teams to integrate AI models and ensure compliance with privacy and governance standards.

Requirements

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, with a focus on large‑scale distributed systems and data platforms.
• Deep expertise in C++ and Python for building high‑performance services.
• Strong background in cloud services (Azure), big‑data technologies, and storage architectures.
• Hands‑on experience applying machine‑learning or AI techniques to real‑world data pipelines.
• Proven ability to lead technical teams, influence architecture decisions, and deliver production‑grade systems at massive scale.