Principal Software Engineer, FDE
Microsoft
In this Principal Software Engineer role, you will design and ship production-ready, reliable systems that turn ideas and data into scalable AI-powered solutions. You’ll work in cross-functional crews, embedding with customer teams to deliver outcomes within a Forward Deployed Engineering model. You’ll leverage AI and secure software practices to impact business strategy and customer success at scale. The opportunity emphasizes rapid delivery, collaboration, and continuous learning in a growth-minded culture.
Pay / Benefits- health and wellness benefits
- financial future benefits
- flexible work environment
- inclusive culture
- competitive compensation
- benefits vary by country
- Own end-to-end system design for cloud and AI workloads with balance of reliability, performance, cost, and maintainability
- Build, ship, and operate secure, production-ready solutions meeting enterprise standards
- Collaborate with stakeholders to translate business needs into measurable technical outcomes
- Lead delivery end-to-end across multiple workstreams and dependencies to improve reliability
- Drive customer success by delivering solutions that are adopted at scale and unblock delivery
- Create reusable assets, accelerators, and reference architectures for broader reuse
- Provide technical direction and mentorship across disciplines (product, data, security)
- Maintain clarity and momentum in ambiguous engagements while aligning with customer priorities
- Promote a culture of trust, accountability, and continuous improvement in line with company values
- Operate in a fast, feedback-driven environment using CI/CD, observability, and progressive delivery
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field or equivalent experience
- Experience partnering directly with customers or internal stakeholders to deliver end-to-end solutions
- Experience designing, deploying, and operating AI or LLM-based solutions including prompt engineering and model evaluation
- Familiarity with deploying and operating AI systems in production environments
- Experience using cloud AI platforms (Azure ML, OpenAI, or similar)
- Willingness to travel up to 25%
- collaboration across disciplines
- leadership and mentoring
- excellent communication
- AI/LLM development and deployment
- prompt engineering and retrieval-augmented techniques
- model evaluation, data quality, performance monitoring
Reference: WJ-747_30204881