Principal Software Engineer - CoreAI

Recently, we introduced ACA Sandboxes, purpose built for powering the sandboxing needs for Agent Platforms: like Azure SRE agent, Copilot Studio, GitHub Sandboxes, to name a few. Our mission is to provide simple but useful application primitives to help customers run their workloads securely and efficiently.

As a Principal Software Engineer - CoreAI in this team, you will be responsible for end-to-end product development (understand customer requirements, design, implementation and validation), participating in peer reviews, operations and mentoring.

You will also be responsible for taking a leadership role in workstreams, coordinating across engineers in US and Asia-Pacific. Given Container Apps is an Azure service running production workloads for customers, you will also be required to be part of the on-call rotation.

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees, we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day, we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond. In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement and operate large scale distributed systems.
• Apply AI for inner and outer loop, find creative ways to balance agility with security.
• Mentor / coach early in career engineers.
• Actively participate in peer-reviews (for design, coding, inner loop, etc.).
• Design tests (integration, security).

• 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.

Other Requirements:

Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:

• Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Preferred/Additional Qualifications:

• 12+ years of software design and development experience.
• 4+ years of operating large systems at scale.
• 2+ years of working in co-building with peers.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering.

Software Engineering IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $142,800 - $274,800 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $188,000 - $304,200 per year.