Principal Software Engineer
- Redmond, WA
- Permanent
- Full-time
We are expanding our team to bring together the best in big data management, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. We work with and contribute to state-of-the-art open-source packages, including Apache Spark, Koalas, Pandas, Dask, sklearn, MLFlow, TensorFlow, and PyTorch, as well as generative AI. We combine those with our own tech to build secure, reliable, scalable, and high-performance machine learning platforms. With our platforms, we strive to enable our customers to follow the principles of responsible AI: Fairness, Inclusiveness, Reliability & Safety, Privacy & Security, Transparency, Accountability.
You will be an important part of a team of highly motivated and talented individuals and this is a great opportunity to challenge yourself, grow your career and be part of the fastest growing field in computer science and beyond.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.Responsibilities:
- Leads efforts and discussions for the architecture of aspects of products/solutions.
- Independently creates and mentors others for a clear and articulated plan for testing and assuring the quality of solutions and defines success for outcomes of tests.
- Leads identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.
- Creates and applies metrics to drive the quality and stability of code, as well as appropriate coding patterns and best practices.
- Holds accountability for the impact of build deployments on both users and other services.
- Leads efforts to collect, classify, and analyze complex data and analyses on a range of metrics.
- Leads identification of internal tools and creation of new tools that will be useful for creating the product, determining if methods are still applicable for the current solution.
- Demonstrates and maintains an up-to-date understanding of both global and local regulations for technologies and system applications to ensure regulations are followed and met.
- Escalates situations internally to resolve complex blockers.
- Embody our
- 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, or Python
- OR equivalent experience.
- 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 10+ 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 experience in GenAI, machine learning, high performance computing, or distributed big data systems.
- Experience with industrial GenAI/LLM/Agent applications
- Experience participating in open-source development
- Hands-on project experiences in big data analysis or distributed computing
- Good communication and presentation skills
- Solve problems by always leading with deep passion and empathy for customers
- 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.