Microsoft · 17 hours ago
Principal Software Engineering Architect
United States
Full-time
Remote
Lead/Staff
$163K/yr - $296K/yr
8+ years expMicrosoft is seeking a highly motivated Principal Software Engineering Architect to lead the Azure Resource Graph team in expanding big data and LLM/agentic platform services. The role involves defining strategy, designing scalable architectures, and guiding engineering teams to build high-performance services that enhance customer experiences.
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Responsibilities
Define and lead the strategy for ARG’s evolution into LLM and agentic services
Design scalable architectures for distributed systems that integrate machine learning and intelligent agents
Partner across Azure to build platform capabilities that accelerate AI adoption and unlock new customer experiences
Guide engineering teams in building high-performance, future-ready services with immediate customer and business impact
Achieving quality results with laser customer focus
Build distributed micro-services in the area of proprietary columnar databases, replication, batching, agentic, indexing, change tracking, insights, and in defining graph models
Focus on end-to-end services, development, and deployment
Qualification
Required
Bachelor'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
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
Master'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 Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 15+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience
5+ years of experience in the following: architecting large scale distributed systems, AND running a service in one of the large-scale clouds like Microsoft Azure (Azure), or similar, AND providing technical leadership, raising the technical bar, maintaining data and results-driven culture while closely working with cross function teams, for the same connected mission, AND building true cloud-scale services
4+ years of exposure to the internals of Big Data Systems like Spark, Kubernetes, Structured Streaming etc
2+ years of experience problem-solving skills in the space of AI, large datasets, Spark, Ray or other computing technologies
2+ years of exposure to the internals of databases, stores
1+ year of exposure with LLMs/RAG
Company
Microsoft
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