Principal Software Engineering Manager, CoreAI

Principal Software Engineering Manager, CoreAI

United States, Washington, Redmond

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Job description

Company and benefits

Job number

200043562

Date posted

Oct 22, 2026

Work site

3 days / week in-office

Travel

Less than 25%

Profession

Software Engineering

Discipline

Software Engineering

Role type

People Manager

Employment type

Full-Time

Overview

Microsoft is a company where passionate innovators come to collaborate, envision what can be, and take their careers further. This is a world of more possibilities, more innovation, more openness, and the sky is the limit thinking in a cloud-enabled world.

The CoreAI organization at Microsoft builds the end-to-end AI stack and is core to Azure AI innovation and differentiation, as well as all of Microsoft’s flagship products, from GitHub, to Office, Teams, and Xbox. We are the team building Responsible AI, Azure OpenAI, Model as a Service, Azure ML, Cognitive Services, and the global Azure AI infrastructure for running the largest AI workloads on the planet.

We do not just value differences or different perspectives. We seek them out and invite them in so we can tap into the collective power of everyone in the company. As a result, our customers are better served. Within CoreAI, the Foundry team empowers builders around the world of all skill level to easily create AI apps.

The Responsible AI group focuses on identifying, measuring, mitigating, and monitoring Responsible AI risks in AI-generated and human-generated content spanning text, image, audio, video, and multimodal content. We are looking for a Principal Software Engineering Manager who is passionate about building customer-facing AI services with scalable and sustainable architecture and implementation and with high performance, low latency, and high availability.

In this role, as a Principal Software Engineering Manager you will lead a team of software engineers and work closely with partner teams of engineers, scientists, and product managers to build the industry's best Responsible AI services. You will get a chance to be hands on with the team collaborating on the technical artifacts, leadership, and team process.

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of software engineers, hiring, growing, and upskilling their talent

• Review the design and code artifacts that make up large-scale distributed cloud services and solutions with a focus on high availability, scalability, robustness, and observability.

• Lead project development across the organization and work with subject matter experts and stakeholders to drive development and release plans.

• Ensure systems owned by the team meet business requirements and service KPIs.

• Take end-to-end responsibility for the development lifecycle and production readiness of the services the team builds and drive the team’s DevOps culture.

• Ensure the team follows best practices of modern software engineering through code and design reviews and take effective service decisions.