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Principal Software Engineer-March 2024
Redmond
Mar 28, 2026
About Principal Software Engineer

  Do you want to be part of a team which delivers innovative products and machine learning solutions across Microsoft to hundreds of millions of users every month? Does the opportunity to join a fast-paced, high visibility, diverse team in a highly competitive market sound exciting to you? If so, this Principal Software Engineer role with the Microsoft Turing team may be a great fit for you!

  The Microsoft Turing team is an innovative engineering and research team working on state-of-the-art deep learning models and works on projects across the entire deep learning life cycle. The team spearheads the platform and innovation for conversational search and the core copilot experiences across Microsoft’s ecosystem including Bing, Office and Windows.

  In addition, the team also works on improving experiences across Microsoft’s products and services by working on high value scenarios. The Turing team has shipped capabilities across many Microsoft scenarios including AutoSuggest, Microsoft Word’s new find feature, quick reply on Outlook, Smart Compose features in Word, image enhancement models, recommendations, enterprise search capabilities for Microsoft Sharepoint as well as many other features across Office, Bing, and Xbox. 

  These new experiences are powered by a large-scale deep learning-based enterprise search and question-answering systems built by the team, which processes billions-to-trillions of data items and serves millions of end users in millisecond latency.

  We are looking for an engineer with a variety of skills and areas of expertise, from backend infrastructure of large-scale system to microservices and to front-end development. If you share our passion of building innovated products and utilizing the power of machine learning in large-scale real-world situations for the benefit of our customers, we would love to consider your application.

  Read more about our team’s work here: https://turing.microsoft.com

  Responsibilities

  As a Principal Software Engineer on our team, you'll be responsible for and will engage in:

  Driving projects from design through implementation, experimentation and finally shipping to our users.

  Building large-scale high-performant distributed system to improve experience across Microsoft products

  Design system through well-defined interfaces across multiple components, code reviews, leveraging data/telemetry to make decisions

  Develop “best-in-class” engineering for our services by ensuring that the services and the components are well-defined and modularized, secure, reliable, diagnosable, actively monitored and reusable. 

  Gain a working understanding of Microsoft as a business and collaborate with mentors and leaders in order to contribute to cohesive, end-to-end experiences for our users.

  Working with big data by training, extending, and shipping the capability of deep learning models to provide compelling experiences across our products.

  Working in a diverse geographically distributed team environment where collaboration and innovation are valued. You will have an opportunity for direct impact on design, functionality, security, performance, scalability, manageability, and supportability of Microsoft products that use our deep learning technology.

  Qualifications

  Required/Minimum Qualifications

  Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline 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.

  6+ years of commercial systems level software development experience, with one or more of the following: Distributed Systems, Information Retrieval and/or Data Mining, Machine Learning fundamentals.

  Additional or Preferred Qualifications

  Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 10+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python

  OR 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 equivalent experience.

  Software Engineering IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $133,600 - $256,800 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 $173,200 - $282,200 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

  #webxt# #msturingjobs# #msturingjobs# SATIWARY

  Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, 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 and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html) .

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