Principal Software Engineer

Microsoft is a company where passionate innovators come to collaborate, envision what can be and take their careers further. This is a world of more possibilities, more innovation, more openness, and the sky is the limit thinking in a cloud-enabled world.

The AI Platform organization at Microsoft builds the end-to-end Azure AI stack/PaaS and is core to Azure’s innovation and differentiation, as well as all of Microsoft’s flagship products, from Office to Teams, to Xbox. We are the team building Azure OpenAI, Azure ML, Cognitive Services, and the global Azure AI infrastructure for running the largest AI workloads on the planet.

We do not just value differences or different perspectives. We seek them out and invite them in so we can tap into the collective power of everyone in the company. As a result, our customers are better served.

Within AI Platform, the Azure AI Search team powers rich search experiences for apps of all kinds. Integrates the best of Microsoft AI for content understanding, search relevance and more. 

The generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) revolution ignited the need for state-of-the-art retrieval systems. These retrieval systems are used by customers to create their own Copilot-style applications that combine large language models with external data. In Azure, the go-to retrieval system for these scenarios is Azure AI Search.

We’re looking for an experienced engineering leader to join our Frontend and Engineering Systems Team as a Principal Software Engineer. This is a rare opportunity to lead development of our Engineering Systems platform and frontend applications. Join us in this special point in time to help drive the next round of accelerated growth for our business by innovating our core AI cloud services.Engineering systems encompasses the overall secure development lifecycle for Azure AI Search including all internal developer tools, CI/CD process, operational tooling, overall service architecture, security fundamentals, service foundations and release management.

The engineering systems establishes frameworks, patterns and infrastructure to teams to self-service their release, compliance, and foundational needs. This enables fellow Azure AI Search engineers to release features securely and reliably through multiple complex environments.

The team also owns the APIs Azure customers use to manage their service lifecycle as well as store/retrieve their data. We provide the foundation to host web APIs in Azure safely and efficiently for management and data planes. This includes API versioning and REST specifications, throttling and concurrency enforcement, and integrations with Azure partners. With the frontend applications, the team has a tight feedback loop of utilizing the engineering system platform to demonstrate and model the adoption across Azure AI Search services.

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

• Play a central role in defining vision and driving implementation of complex, scalable, and reliable platform solutions
• Technical leader for the Engineering Systems development team
• Empower and inspire others to be successful
• Embody growth mindset and foster inclusive team culture
• Collaborate closely with other development teams in Azure AI Search team
  
• Embody our culture and values 

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree AND 6+ years experience in software engineering OR equivalent experience.
• 2+ years experience of leading organization for the architecture and technical design of aspects of a product that include customer facing and infrastructure as a platform.
• 2+ years experience successfully leading engineering teams that successfully deliver code into large engineering projects.

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