Principal Software Engineer Growth (CoreAI)
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Mountain View, CA - USA
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Job Summary
About the Role
WerebuildingAIfirst growth and experimentation systemsthat scale across Microsoft. This role is about designing foundational engineeringsystems (instrumentation experimentation rollout and decisioning) that let teams ship measure learn fasterwith higher confidence.
As aPrincipal Growth Engineer inCoreAIyoulldrive the technical strategy for how wemeasure experiment and scaleAI experiences across worldclass products whileremainingdeep in the details and landing meaningful changes daily.
At this level impact comes from buildingrepeatable systemsand raising the engineering bar: better experiment quality better telemetry safer rollouts and clearer business outcomes delivered through pragmatic execution and deep technical judgment.
AboutCoreAI
CoreAI Platform and ToolsisMicrosofts AIfirst engineering organization created to build theendtoend Copilot & AI stackpowering products likeGitHub Copilot and Visual Studio Code.
Our mission is toempower every developer to shape the future with AI accelerating how AI applications are built deployed and improved atglobalscale.
Responsibilities
WhatYoullDo
Own growth through engineering excellence and experimentation at a systems level
Architect and buildpaved pathsfor online experimentation: standardized metrics guardrails analysis workflows and rollout automation that improve reliability and decision quality across teams
Lead multiworkstream initiatives that span teams/products (e.g. unified growth measurement crosssurface funnels experimentation quality improvements)
Build and evolve core capabilities:telemetry foundations experiment assignment/targeting feature flighting and risk controls (killswitches guardrails progressive delivery)
Partner with Product Data Science Design and Research to turn ambiguous goals intoshippable measurable systems
Stay close to the work: write production code review designs/PRs and coach others through architecture and implementation tradeoffs
What Were Looking For
Proven ability to design and shipsystemic solutions(platforms frameworks primitives) that enable multiple teams to move faster whileremainingdeeply handson and detailoriented
Software engineering fundamentals with experience building shipping and operatingproduction services or client applicationsat scale
Demonstrated technical leadership acrossarchitecture service fundamentals and quality(reliability performance operability security and maintainability)
Track recordof translating ambiguous product/business problems intomeasurable engineering outcomes with clear hypotheses instrumentation and decision criteria
High data aptitude: comfortable with metrics telemetry and experimental analysis and able to raise the bar on experimentation rigor and interpretation
Qualifications
Required Qualifications
- Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8 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
8 yearsbuilding and shippinghighavailability featuresformultiregion globally distributed systems(resiliency failover capacity planning)
4 years of experience in experimentation with emphasis on quality: guardrails bias detection metric integrity rollout risk management and enterprise grade experimentation
Demonstrated experience buildingexperimentation/measurement platforms(feature flags/flighting assignment metrics pipelines analysis tooling) used by multiple teams
Demonstrated experienceleaning heavily on AI to accelerate engineering velocity including using AI tools to prototype implement debug and iterate on production systems
Crossteam influence: you create clarity align stakeholders and drive execution across organizational boundaries without becoming a piecemover
Software Engineering IC6 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $165600 - $296400 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 $220800 - $331200 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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