Principal Software Engineer, M365 Enterprise Search Platform

What you'll do

• Design and build search, retrieval, and RAG solutions for Microsoft 365 Copilot.
• Develop, debug, test, and troubleshoot large-scale distributed systems, driving reliability, performance, scalability, and operational excellence.
• Collaborate across engineering and product teams, influence technical strategy, and apply agentic engineering practices to improve development efficiency.

What they ask for

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field and 6+ years technical engineering experience coding in languages including C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python; or equivalent experience.
• Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements, including the Microsoft Cloud Background Check.

Nice to have

• 8+ years of software engineering experience building large-scale cloud services and distributed systems.
• Experience with search, retrieval, AI or RAG platforms, and modern AI and Agentic Engineering practices.

Pay

USD $142,800 - $274,800 per year (base salary); USD $188,000 - $304,200 per year (base salary)

Tools

C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Python

AI focus

Builds search, retrieval, and RAG systems for Microsoft 365 Copilot and applies autonomous or semi-autonomous agents across software design, coding, testing, deployment, reliability engineering, and operations.