Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States -
Full Time


Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

20 Feb, 26

Salary

0.0

Posted On

22 Nov, 25

Experience

10 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

No

Skills

Software Engineering, Security, AI/ML, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Python, Mentoring, Vulnerabilities, Cross-Product Features, Project Management, Observability, Performance, Extensible Code

Industry

Software Development

Description
Partners with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for one or more complex safety scenarios, including demonstration of security attacks, both practical contemporary attacks or future attacks. Leads by example and mentors others to produce extensible and maintainable code used across the company. Leverages deep subject-matter expertise of cross-product features with appropriate stakeholders to lead multiple product's project plans, release plans, and work items. Holds accountability as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI), mentoring engineers across products/solutions, monitoring system/product/service for novel security vulnerabilities. Proactively seeks new knowledge and adapts to new trends, technical solutions, and patterns that will improve the security baseline, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale and shares knowledge with other engineers. 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, Python OR equivalent experience. 3+ years of experience in AI/ML security or equivalent recent security expertise. 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, Python, or equivalent experience. Demonstrated ability to apply AI knowledge in practice including prompt engineering, grounding, or model fine tuning - Demonstrated ability to both break systems and discover novel security flaws as well as building safeguards to mitigate them. Experience with Modern browsers, especially chromium-based browsers. Experience representing a team in multi-stakeholder environments.
Responsibilities
The Principal Software Engineer partners with stakeholders to determine user requirements for complex safety scenarios and leads by example while mentoring others. They hold accountability as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and proactively seek new knowledge to improve security and performance across products.
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