The Artificial Intelligence (AI) Infrastructure Engineering Systems team at Microsoft builds the cloud platform, engineering infrastructure, and developer systems that enable teams to develop, deploy, and operate AI services at scale. You will help create foundational capabilities spanning service delivery, data storage, graph infrastructure, analytics, stream processing, data pipelines, search, compute, media, and service lifecycle management. Working with AI researchers, product engineers, hardware teams, and technical leaders, you will help provide reliable and consistent paths from development to production within a multidisciplinary, collaborative, and inclusive engineering team.
As a Principal Software Engineer, Systems and Infrastructure in the AI Infrastructure Engineering Systems team, you will provide technical leadership for deeply complex and ambiguous products and solutions across the organization. You will own overall system architecture, align technical decisions with business outcomes, guide multiple key initiatives, and shape reusable platforms that support Microsoft's products and AI services at scale. You will establish engineering standards, mentor technical leaders, influence cross-functional teams and open-source communities, and drive secure, reliable, and maintainable solutions across product boundaries.
This opportunity will allow you to shape organization-wide infrastructure strategy, advance engineering standards across complex product areas, and expand your influence across Microsoft and the broader technology community.
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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.

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