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Principal Data Privacy & Governance Engineer

Microsoft

New York, United States, U.S.
Full-Time
Posted Sep 25, 2025
4 days / week in-office

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About the role

Microsoft AI (MAI) is seeking an experienced Principal Data Privacy & Governance Engineer to help build mission applications and platform components for our personal AI, Copilot systems.

Responsibilities

  • Build tools in the areas of data security, privacy and governance products in distributed data, cloud platform environments.
  • Work collaboratively with other Platform, infrastructure, application engineers as well as AI Researchers to build next generation automated data governance systems.
  • Ship high-quality, well-tested, secure, and maintainable code.
  • Find a path to get things done despite roadblocks to get your work into the hands of users quickly and iteratively.
  • Enjoy working in a fast-paced, design-driven, product development cycle.

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, or Python
  • OR equivalent experience.
  • 4+ years' experience building scalable services on top of public cloud infrastructure like Azure, AWS, or GCP.
  • Extensive use datastores like RDBMS, key-value stores, etc.
  • 3+ years experience in collaborating with engineering, product, legal, and compliance teams to embed privacy-by-design principles and build automated scalable governance mechanisms into our data infrastructure.
  • 3+ years experience in building data lineage tracking, proactive alerting mechanisms monitoring and enforce compliance with internal standards and external regulations.

Benefits

  • Health insurance
  • 401k matching
  • Generous time away
  • Giving programs
  • Opportunities to network and connect

About the Company

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more.

Job Details

Salary Range

$139,900 - $274,800/yearly

Location

New York, United States, U.S.

Employment Type

Full-Time

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