SeniorPrincipal Software Engineer Growth (CoreAI)

About the Role

• Werebuilding AIfirst engineering systems that power growth at Microsoft designing shipping and scaling code that directly shapes how millions of developers experience and adopt AI.

• As a Growth Engineer inCoreAI youllsit at the intersection of product engineering and data driving experimentation learning velocity andreal businessimpact across worldclassdeveloperand AI products.

• This role is about shipping fast learning faster and scaling what works all while upholding Microsofts commitment to responsible inclusive and trustworthy AI .

About CoreAI

• CoreAI Platform and Tools isMicrosofts AIfirst engineering organization created to build the endtoend Copilot & AI stack powering products like GitHub Copilot and Visual Studio Code .

• Our mission is to empower every developer to shape the future with AI accelerating how AI applications are built deployed and improved atglobalscale.

Why This Role Is Exciting

• This is not growth at the edges this is growth at the core.

• Build AIpowered growth loops on worldclass products like VS Code and GitHub

• Operate inside a highvelocity AIfirst engineering organization where learning speed matters

• Influence how hundreds of millions of users discover adopt and succeed with AI

• Drive real businessimpact measured shipped and scaled

• Help define what responsible growth looks like in the AIorganisation

Our Culture & Values

• At Microsoft how we build matters as much as what we build .

• We are guided by our mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more and we show up every day with:

• A growth mindset

• Respect integrity and accountability

• A commitment to inclusive responsible AI that earns trust and benefits everyone

• We believe diverse perspectives make our products and our teams stronger.

Impact Youll Have

• Raise the bar for experimentation quality acrossCoreAI

• Help define AI growth best practices for Microsoft

• Turn learning into leverage faster adoption better experiences measurable results

What Youll Do

• Own growth through engineering excellence and experimentation

• Design ship and iterate on growth experiments across acquisition activation engagement and retention

• Build and evolve A/B testing frameworks metrics and tooling that raise experimentation quality and confidence

• Partner closely with Product Data Science Design and Research to turn hypotheses into shipped learnings

• Use data and telemetry to guide decisions from experiment design to rollout strategy

• Scale successful growth patterns across hightraffic global AI products

• Balance speed and rigor in a fastpaced AIfirst engineering environment

What Were Looking For

• S oftware engineering fundamentals with experience building shipping and operating production services or client applications

• Proficiencyin designing scalable reliable systems that support rapid iteration and experimentation

• Experience writing highquality maintainable code and owning services endtoend in a live environment

• Ability to reason about performance reliability and correctness in hightraffic systems

• Experience supporting or driving experimentation (A/B testing) in production environments

• Understanding of experimentation quality including guardrails metricsselection and rollout strategies

• Engineering mindset grounded in hypothesisdriven development and learning through iteration

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4 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 Qualifications

• 2 years shipping A/B tests endtoend in production (design instrumentation analysis rollout) including improving experiment quality and guardrails

• 4 years building and shipping highavailability features for multiregion globally distributed systems (resiliency failover capacity planning)

• Demonstrated experience leaning heavily on AI to accelerate engineering velocity including using AI tools to prototype implement debug and iterate on production features

Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119800 - $234700 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 $160200 - $261000 per year.

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Software Engineering IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $142800 - $274800 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 $188000 - $304200 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
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.

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