Principal Software Engineer - CoreAI

Overview

At CoreAI , we empower developers and organizations to shape the future with Artificial Intelligence (AI). Our Growth and Data Science team spans both Microsoft's Developer Division and AI Foundry. We accelerate CoreAI's mission by delivering insights, reporting, models, and tools that guide product strategy and unlock growth across our developer ecosystem.


We're looking for a Principal Software Engineer - CoreAI with a track record of cross-team partnership, effective communication with engineering, executive leadership and sales, the ability to translate product questions into targeted data science investigations, and the ability to independently identify/execute/automate insightful analysis that improves Microsoft's developer-focused AI suite and drives product growth.


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

• Leads by example and mentors' others to produce extensible and maintainable code used across the company.
• Leverages deep subject-matter expertise of cross-product features with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to lead multiple product's project plans, release plans, and work items.
• Own and define end-to-end data and analytics architecture for CoreAI and Foundry platforms, setting long-term technical direction for scalable, reliable, and cost-effective analytics supporting AI workloads.
• Design, build, and optimize large-scale, robust data pipelines and architectures that support CoreAI's analytics initiatives.
• Data Governance & Trust: follow best practices for data quality, lineage, security, and compliance.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to define trustworthy data sets and implement rigorous data validation protocols, ensuring CoreAI's analytics are both accurate and auditable.
• Analytics Enablement: Partner with data scientists, analysts, and business leaders to translate business needs into technical solutions.
• Enable self-service analytics and empower teams by building data models, semantic layers, and tools that streamline access to trusted information.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with product managers, software engineers, AI researchers, and business stakeholders to align data solutions with business goals.
• Contribute actively to the infrastructure and culture needed to scale quantity and quality of data insights across CoreAI.
• Mentor other software engineers, engineers, and PMs.
• Leverage AI to accelerate workflows and amplify team productivity.

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications:

• 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:

• 5+ years of experience leading software engineering and analytics projects that delivered measurable product and growth wins.
• Deep experience architecting and operating large scale data pipelines in cloud environment, preferably Azure.
• Ability to write clean, working code using core algorithms, data structures, and analytics-oriented problem-solving.
• Understanding of data governance, privacy, lineage, and security best practices, especially within highly regulated or enterprise environments.
• Excellent communication skills to convey complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience using AI tools in software engineering, data science, and analytics workflows.
• Experience both prototyping and deploying data products.

Software Engineering IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $142,800.00 - $274,800.00 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 $188,000.00 - $304,200.00 per year.


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This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.