Principal Software Engineer- AI Search

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.  Azure AI Search is rapidly growing and adapting our product to power many of the leading generative AI applications in the ecosystem, including OpenAI's ChatGPT.  We are looking to hire a Principal Software Engineer-AI Search to join the team. This is a unique position to have breadth of owning the engineering systems for all of Azure AI Search and at the same time showcase the solution via customer facing APIs. This is a rare opportunity to lead development for an Azure service at the very center of AI innovation wave, operating at the intersection of AI, Information Retrieval, Cloud Services and security. Join us in this special point in time to help drive the next round of accelerated growth for our business through innovating our core cloud service platforms. 

The Azure AI Search Engineering Foundations team owns 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. We enable fellow Azure AI Search engineers to release features securely and reliably through multiple complex environments by establishing frameworks, patterns and infrastructure to allow teams to self-service their release, compliance, and foundational needs. 

As a sounding board to our own engineering systems, as consumers, the team showcases the solution via the data and management plane components. These are components the APIs our customers use to provision services and interact with their services to store and search their data. We provide the foundation to safely and efficiently develop, validate, and deploy component

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• 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.
• 2+ years experience of leading organization through architecture and technical design of aspects of a product that include customer facing and infrastructure as a platform.
• Experience successfully leading engineering teams that successfully deliver code into large engineering projects
• 2+ years experience with increasing the development and delivery velocity of complex codebases.
• 2+ years experience with managing and delivering security in the cloud.

Other Requirements

• 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/Additional Qualifications: 

• Experience with large scale distributed cloud systems , engineering systems (build systems, deployment systems, tooling, etc) 

• Experience with security, secrets and managed identity  

Software Engineering IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $137,600 - $267,000 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 $180,400 - $294,000 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until January 10, 2025.

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• Technical leader who defines and implements large complex features
• 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
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