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Principal Software Engineer/Architect - Azure Core

Microsoft

$139,900 - $304,200
Oct 3, 2025
Remote, US
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The Azure Resource Graph (ARG) team is looking to expand its platform vision beyond search and governance to incorporate LLM-driven intelligence, agentic workflows, and advanced data platforms to transform how customers interact with and manage Azure, thereby shortening the cycle and increasing Azure adoption.

Requirements

  • 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C++, C, Java or Python
  • 5+ years of experience in architecting large scale distributed systems.
  • 5+ years operational experience in running a service in one of the large-scale clouds like Microsoft Azure (Azure), or similar.
  • 2+ years of experience problem-solving skills in the space of AI, large datasets, Spark, Ray or other computing technologies.
  • 5+ years of hands-on working knowledge of building true cloud-scale services.
  • 2+ years of exposure to the internals of databases, stores
  • 4+ years of exposure to the internals of Spark, Kubernetes, GraphX, Pandas, Structured Streaming etc.

Responsibilities

  • Define and lead the strategy for ARG’s evolution into big data and LLM/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.
  • 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.

Other

  • 5+ years experience 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.
  • Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role.
  • Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
  • Achieving quality results with laser customer focus.