Principal Software Engineer

Microsoft is a company where passionate innovators come to collaborate, envision what can be and take their careers to levels they cannot achieve anywhere else. This is a world of more possibilities, more innovation, more openness in a cloud-enabled world.  The Power Platform Connectors Group within the Business & Industry Copilots Organization which is rapidly growing that is responsible for the Microsoft Dynamics 365 suite of products, Power Apps, Power Automate, Dataverse, AI Builder, Microsoft Industry Solution and more. Microsoft is considered one of the leaders in Software as a Service in the world of business applications and this organization is at the heart of how business applications are designed and delivered.  

 We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer to join our team! This is an exciting time to join our group and work on something highly strategic to Microsoft. Microsoft Dataverse is the platform to securely store an enormous amount of data in a cost efficient, scalable and easily manageable way. This team builds a suite of microservices to get near real-time insights over your data across various product suites at Microsoft including Power Apps, Power Automate, Microsoft Copilot studio as well as various M365 products. You will be a part of a team of engineers who thrive on solving complex problems at scale while doing it with impeccable quality. As part of your role you would be working on the cutting-edge innovation happening in building agentic workloads at scale while maintaining impeccable quality. 

This role requires you to be onsite 3 days a week in Microsoft's offices in Redmond, WA.  

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.  

Responsibilities

Responsibilities:  

• Design, implement, test, deploy, maintain, and improve our software components and services 

• Lead initiatives to deliver complex features, substantially improve product quality, and transform operations within the team 

• Lead technical discussions and bring new ideas to the table  

• Design and Build Scalable AI Infrastructure  

• Fine tuning AI models 

• Develop Experimentation and Evaluation Frameworks 

• Lead code reviews to ensure all quality standards are met and by modeling best practices 

• Work with Product Managers, Architects and UX Designers to design and specify new features from the engineering standpoint   

• Identify need for internal tools that improve the teams’ quality and productivity, and lead their implementation  

Qualifications

Basic 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.  
• 4+ years of experience leveraging subject matter expertise to analyze problems and issues facing projects to uncover, manage, and/or mitigate fa