Hiring: Principal Software Engineer Company: Microsoft Location: Redmond, WA Job Posted Time: 2026-09-02 21:46:56 Target Skills & Keywords : Agile, Azure, C, C#, C++, Java, JavaScript, Kubernetes, LLM, Python About the job Experience: •6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python •5+ years of software engineering experience, with significant ownership of production services, cloud platforms, distributed systems, or developer infrastructure. Required Skills: •As a member of our team, you will participate in developing innovative solutions across AI Platform. Responsibilities include the following. •Collaboration with engineers and researchers to build and optimize training infrastructure and tools for LLMs, SLMs, multimodal, and code-specific models. •Design, build and improve services with high scalability and reliability. •Design and implement the services to serve the prod traffic and fulfill the security and privacy requirements. •Participate in efforts to deliver and improve engineering systems and practices to ensure service quality in complex cloud environments. •Contribute to the deployment and monitoring of services in production environments. 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 •5+ years of software engineering experience, with significant ownership of production services, cloud platforms, distributed systems, or developer infrastructure. •Strong experience building and operating containerized platforms using Kubernetes or similar orchestration systems. •8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 12+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!