Microsoft Technology/Software

Principal Software Engineer

Mountain View, CA +1 In person Full-time

Overview

Shape the way the M365 measures and drives the feedback loop for its AI offerings!

On the M365 Evaluation Platform Team, you’ll have a front-row seat to how AI impacts millions of users. You’ll help steer one of Microsoft’s most important efforts forward, taking our evaluation system to the next level for our builders and partners.

Our goal is to accelerate learning by making sure all the user journeys of an eval system (fine tuning a model, launching a new feature or experiment, adding metrics, onboarding a new 1P or 3P partner, understanding user feedback, creating query sets, etc.) are supported by friendly, agile, reliable, scalable and well documented tools.

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Responsibilities

Partner with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for our evaluation scenarios.

Provide technical leadership for the identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.

Lead by example and mentor others to produce extensible and maintainable code used across the company.

Leverage deep subject-matter expertise of cross-product features with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to lead multiple product's project plans, release plans, and work items.

Hold accountability as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI), mentoring engineers across products/solutions, working on-call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions.

Proactively seek new knowledge and adapt to new trends, technical solutions, and patterns that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale and share knowledge with other engineers.

Enable builders to be more agile, running more evaluations and faster.

Provide a continuous set of tools and evaluation capabilities throughout the development lifecycle.

Automate tasks via tools or agents to help us understand our performance better.

Build a platform that automatically does product hill climbing for us

Required 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.

Other Requirements

Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:

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 Qualifications

Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 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

OR equivalent experience.

Software Engineering IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $142,800 - $274,800 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 $188,000 - $304,200 per year.

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

https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

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.

Insights from previous hires

Top skills: Automation, Communication, Break Fix, Azure DevOps, Microsoft Copilot Studio, Git, Dataverse, Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD), Contamination, Computer Forensics

Common previous titles: Tech, Technology Consultant, Senior Solution Engineer, Senior Security Researcher, Senior Partner Manager, Senior, Solution Engineer, Software Engineer II, Senior Hardware Engineer, Principal Scientist

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