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PrincipalSenior Software Engineer, Experimentation Platform CoreAI

Microsoft

Job Location:

Redmond, WA - USA

Yearly Salary: USD 119800 - 234700

Posted: 6 October 2026 (14 hours ago)

Application Deadline: 3 January 2027

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Department:

Software Engineering

Job Summary

Overview

CoreAI sits at the center of Microsofts mission to redefine how software is built and experienced providing the foundational platforms services and developer experiences that power the next generation of AI-driven applications. As part of CoreAI the Experimentation Platform (ExP) enables trustworthy high-scale online experimentation that accelerates product learning and drives progress across Microsofts AI ecosystem. You will play a key role in helping teams ship better AI experiences faster by providing the experimentation capabilities needed to evaluate refine and safely deploy new innovations.

In this role you will own and drive the development of critical components in one of the highest-scale experimentation platforms - infrastructure that enables rapid iteration in AI systems and product features. You will design and build services that empower engineers and scientists across the company to measure impact validate hypotheses and advance state-of-the-art AI capabilities through rigorous experimentation. This is a unique opportunity to build systems at scale while deepening your expertise in distributed systems service reliability and experimentation methodologies. You will thrive in this role if you enjoy driving technical excellence in distributed systems mentoring engineers and building reliable infrastructure that accelerates Microsofts progress in AI.

Microsofts mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more and were dedicated to this mission across every aspect of our company. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. Join us and help shape the future of the world.

Responsibilities

Independently leverage AI tools and practices across the software development lifecycle (SDLC) taking responsibility for AI-generated assets and coaching team members to adopt responsible AI-assisted development practices.
Lead by example to produce extensible maintainable well-tested secure and performant code; apply metrics to drive code quality and stability and continuously improve code performance testability and cost-effectiveness across the team.
Own and drive the architecture and design of product components creating design specifications and ensuring system architecture meets performance scalability resiliency and disaster recovery requirements with minimal technical oversight.
Collaborate with partner teams PMs and subject matter experts (privacy security SRE) to determine customer requirements incorporate feedback and deliver scalable reliable features with proper end-to-end testing.
Drive engineering excellence through automation tooling improvements security best practices and deployment infrastructure.
Maintain operations of live site services on a rotational on-call basis implement solutions to complex live-site issues conduct and present incident postmortems and proactively improve troubleshooting guides telemetry and monitoring to reduce incident volume.

Experience with AI-assisted development workflows and responsible use of AI coding tools in production environments.

Qualifications

Qualifications Required:

Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4 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:

Masters 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 Bachelors 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 equivalent experience.
Experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems on cloud platforms (Azure AWS GCP) including design deployment monitoring and troubleshooting of production workloads.
Experience designing and implementing service architectures with strong emphasis on scalability reliability fault tolerance and cost optimization.
Experience using observability tools (logging metrics distributed tracing) to diagnose complex service issues and drive systemic reliability improvements.
Experience mentoring engineers driving code reviews and raising engineering best practices within a team.
Familiarity with experimentation platforms A/B testing methodologies and statistical analysis of product metrics.

Experience with AI-assisted development workflows and responsible use of AI coding tools in production environments.

Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119800 - $234700 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 $160200 - $261000 per year.

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Software Engineering IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $142800 - $274800 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 $188000 - $304200 per year.

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

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