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Principal Software Engineer - Responsible AI

Microsoft

Redmond, Washington, United States
Full-Time
Posted Sep 05, 2025
Hybrid

About the role

The Responsible AI group focuses on identifying, measuring, mitigating, and monitoring Responsible AI risks in AI-generated and human-generated content spanning text, image, audio, video, and multimodal content.

Responsibilities

  • Design, and develop large-scale distributed cloud services and solutions with a focus on high availability, scalability, robustness, and observability.
  • Lead project development across the organization and work with subject matter experts and stakeholders to drive development and release plans.
  • Evaluate alternative architectures and technologies that best fit the business requirements and service KPIs.
  • Take end-to-end responsibility for the development lifecycle and production readiness of the services you build and drive the team’s DevOps culture.
  • Drive and uphold the best practices of modern software engineering through code and design reviews and take effective service decisions based on data and telemetry.
  • Understand Microsoft businesses and collaborate with stakeholders towards cohesive, end-to-end experiences for Microsoft customers.
  • Embrace a growth mindset and stay up to date with the current and state-of-the-art technologies to improve customer experience and better serve the product’s business needs.

Requirements

  • 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, Go, or Python
  • OR equivalent experience
  • 6+ years of technical engineering experience designing and delivering highly available, large-scale cloud services and distributed systems.
  • Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role.

Benefits

  • Industry leading healthcare
  • Educational resources
  • Discounts on products and services
  • Savings and investments
  • Maternity and paternity leave
  • Generous time away
  • Giving programs
  • Opportunities to network and connect

About the Company

Microsoft is a company where passionate innovators come to collaborate, envision what can be, and take their careers further.

Job Details

Salary Range

$139,900 - $274,800/yearly

Location

Redmond, Washington, United States

Employment Type

Full-Time

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